Artificial intelligence and pop music is getting weird, fast

DETROIT — It didn’t take long for AI to hit its hyperspeed moment, which was ushered in when a new song by The Weeknd and Drake took the internet by storm. It wasn’t because of the pairing of the two superstar artists, who have linked up together in the past. It was the fact that neither of them had a single thing to do with the song, it was entirely AI-generated, and now artists, listeners and the recording industry have been thrown into an existential crisis that up until a few months ago seemed like the plot of a potential “Black Mirror” episode. And things are about to get really crazy, if…

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