ace‘I feel like I’m at war’: are we losing the battle against machine-made music?
This year, the battle for song of the summer has been eclipsed by a much more complicated – some would even say disturbing – debate. That’s because we find ourselves asking not “What’s the song of the summer?” but rather “Is the song of the summer even real?” Among the top contenders for the title is Fenix Flexin’s Rubberz, a single released in June that has ascended to No 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 and racked up more than 35m Spotify streams. It’s not the sort of fare Fenix usually cooks up. The artist is know…
Generative music tool Treblo enabled an artist to produce a synth-pop track that reached No. 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 and over 35 million Spotify streams, demonstrating AI as a new sound-finding method for charting artists.
AI-generated tracks reaching streaming services and charts have used tools trained on artists' music without consent and are often linked to fraud and streaming or chart manipulation, prompting calls for disqualification.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-08-13
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Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-0872, v1: “‘I feel like I’m at war’: are we losing the battle against machine-made music?.” Truvace, 2026-08-25. /record/TRV-2026-0872 (accessed at citation time). sha256 b60da042236df3b5…
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