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Spotify's New Badge Splits the AI Musicians We've Covered

Spotify starts labelling AI Personas this month, and the rule tests the picture rather than the music. We checked the five AI musicians we have profiled to see which side of the line each one lands on.

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demonflyingfox Remade the Balenciaga Video Three Years Later

In 2023 demonflyingfox deliberately used an outdated Midjourney model so the characters would never look real. In 2026 the same videos got remade with tools that no longer allow that choice.

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Thought Palace Writes the Music for Every Video They Post

Thought Palace posts seven-second animations in red, blue and green at full blast, and every caption ends the same way: the title, then the track ID for a song the same person wrote.

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NO SOUL SOCIETY Puts the Whole Lyric Sheet Under Every Video

Two anonymous people have put out three albums, an EP, a pile of singles and a Halloween short film in about a year — and every single song arrives with its full lyric sheet typed into the description.

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YACHT Fed Their Own Back Catalog to a Machine and Sang What Came Out

YACHT converted their entire back catalog into MIDI, fed it to a machine learning model, and spent three years assembling songs out of what came back. The album still sounds like YACHT.

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Dadabots Trained a Neural Net on Death Metal and Never Turned It Off

CJ Carr and Zack Zukowski fed raw death metal audio to a neural network, put the output on a livestream, and left it running. Most of their models failed. They published the failures too.

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Holly Herndon Trained an AI on Her Own Voice, Then Gave It Away

Holly Herndon spent six months getting boring results out of a neural network she built in her studio. Then she trained one on her own voice and gave it away to strangers.

imoliver Writes the Words and Generates the Rest

imoliver was the first Suno creator signed to a real record label. He writes every lyric himself, then generates up to 100 versions of a song before one earns a release — a designer's process applied to music he cannot sing or play.

How Xania Monet's Music Actually Gets Made

Xania Monet was the first AI act to land on a Billboard radio chart. Behind her is Telisha Jones, a Mississippi poet who writes every lyric herself, feeds them to Suno, and kept her songwriting credits when the reported $3M deal came.