“The firm’s scattershot denial seemed unconvincing, like Mötley Crüe insisting they have no idea what happened to that attaché case of cocaine”: From string demos to fake influencers, AI’s main use case seems to be ‘ruining music’

A young man sits at his desk playing electric guitar, a laptop with lesson open in front of him.

With D’Addario shot down for (supposedly) using AI-generated music in a product demo, and female content creators replaced by horror-doll avatars, the knives are out again for the technology of our times. Giving you the news in quickfire conversational style, it’s… Fret Buzz.

Good to see AI in the headlines, for a change. Has it done something astonishing to elevate human existence, like curing cancer or restoring the dolphin population?