Denis Bichard

One thing I noticed during this process was that a lot of the AI music that is popular, that people are listening to on Spotify, that has millions of listeners, it often...

is creating songs that are very soulful very gritty you know it's it's like zania monet or solomon ray or kane walkers don't tread on me

King Walker's not a person, it's an AI avatar, right?

Those songs all feel just really authentic.

If I were to sit down in a bar somewhere and someone picked up a guitar and sat, I would expect some gritty local musician to get up and sit on the stool and sing one of those songs and think, yeah, this is really authentic.

This person really suffered through these things and felt these things.

That's how they come across.

And I think that...

AI tends to work best when it just leans into that authenticity because it kind of helps overcome the cognitive dissonance that we're thinking this isn't really a deeply felt song.

And it moves away from mainstream human-generated music, human-made music, which is often very...

heavily designed to be a summer hit or to go viral in some way.

And it often doesn't have that level of authenticity, that feel of authenticity.

And I think when AI replicates that, we're more aware of it being superficial or artificial because there's already an element of artificiality there.

I think I probably will.

You love the power.

I think, you know, what has surprised me with it is now I'll be walking somewhere and I'll think, what if I were to ask it to combine these styles or put...

a banjo with, you know, a hip hop track and add this kind of vocals, what would I get?

I would say now I'm at the point where I don't worry about the connection to the human like I did in the beginning.

In the beginning, I was like, who's this person?

You know, when you're reading a book and you're halfway through the book and you think, what human mind did this book come out of?