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AI country hit ‘Walk My Walk’ built on Blanco Brown’s sound sparks questions of attribution, ethics
AI-generated track 'Walk My Walk' credited to a fictional avatar mirrors Grammy-nominated Blanco Brown’s style, sparking debates on music ownership and industry ethics, Billboard reported.
- This month, an AI-created song called 'Walk My Walk' was credited to Breaking Rust on Billboard's country digital song sales chart, with vocals modeled on Grammy-nominated Blanco Brown, Brown said he only learned about it after people messaged him.
- Industry experts say AI has democratized music creation without guardrails, as educators note Suno and Udio produce chart-ready vocals but leave attribution and consent unclear.
- Blanco Brown says he didn't know about the AI track until his phone flooded with messages, while streaming credits list Aubierre Rivaldo Taylor as songwriter and producer, and link the Echo app to Abraham Abushmais.
- Brown released his own cover last week and plans a reworked version on Monday, as Brown's management frames this as a challenge to the legal and ethical void around AI-generated music.
- The industry is concerned about unauthorized training and licensing deals involving Suno and Udio, while Shelton 'Shelly' Berg says AI cannot replicate live performance's soul, and Somebody remarked, 'Man, somebody done typed your name in the AI and made a white version of you.
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When a country song generated by artificial intelligence, called Walk My Walk, reached first place in Billboard's digital country music sales ranking this month, it was attributed to a fictional artist named Breaking Rust – a white avatar created digitally that did not exist two months ago.
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"Walk my walk" became the first artificially created work to top a Billboard chart. So what can stop the robot takeover? Perhaps the most reviled thing we have, writes DN's Kristofer Ahlström.
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