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Conservative podcaster Matt Walsh shared his reaction to the AI-generated song Walk My Walk topping Billboard's Country Digital Song Sales chart. The track by Breaking Rust became the first AI-generated song to top a Billboard chart. Walk My Walk crossed 3 million streams on Spotify within a month. Billboard, in its November 4 report, noted that at least six AI-generated songs debuted on its charts.
It was only a matter of time, yet it came faster than expected: An entirely AI-generated country song titled “Walk My Walk” by the mysterious artist Breaking Rust has hit No.1 on the Billboard Country Digital Song Sales chart—despite no human singer behind it.
Walk My Walk, which reached the pinnacle of a Billboard chart, stirred a debate across the music industry. Matt Walsh, a vocal critic of AI's exponential growth, also commented on the chart-topping AI-generated song in his Wednesday podcast.
"It's also totally soulless and empty. I mean, it sounds like a song from, like, a Jeep Wrangler commercial or something. It's like a song from a network TV. It's like the soundtrack of a network TV cop show that plays at 9:00 p.m. on a Tuesday on CBS. Like that kind of thing. Just totally devoid of any artistry or soul or meaning or human talent," Matt Walsh said.Matt Walsh noted that the artist of Walk My Walk has "over 2 million monthly views" on Spotify. He called it "deeply disturbing."
"That's the scary part": Matt Walsh expresses concern over AI song Walk My Walk sounding "like a human singing"
The podcaster listened to the song on his podcast and voiced his concerns about its close resemblance to a real human voice. He added that he had listened to AI-generated songs months before, and those were discernible from a real human voice.
"It sounds real in that it does sound like a human singing. That's the scary part. If I heard that, I mean, it sounds like a person. AI music, even—I mean, we did a segment where we played AI songs, I don't know, less than a year ago, and they all sounded like AI, and this does not; I mean, it sounds like a person," Walsh said.The political commentator went on to express his aversion to people liking the AI-generated song. The Daily Wire host claimed that he scoured the comment section of the song on YouTube and found many AI-generated comments there.
"I found this on YouTube, and there were comments, and even so, many of the comments are probably bots and AI, so who knows what's real anymore? That's the world we live in," Matt Walsh said.Describing Walk My Walk as "soul-sucking AI dystopian slop," Walsh said he has "no respect" for those who listen to it. The podcaster expressed his frustration towards AI and said that he would cause "an AI genocide" if he could.
"I will be like the bad guy in the movie, hatching an evil plot to just kill them all. I will be an anti-AI Genghis Khan, just killing entire country's worth of these robots," he added.Referring to the Walk My Walk artist’s two million monthly Spotify listeners, Matt Walsh said he now thought the AI-generated songs were only about a year away from reaching a point where the charts would be dominated by them. He said that AI music “marks the death of the soul” and added that AI-generated art "is impossible.”
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Edited by Anuj Singh Kushwaha
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