Condemned
“The fact that no one made it, that it’s the creation of a machine, only intensifies the sick, empty feeling.”
Alex Galbraith rejected Boy George’s authorship framing and argued that the machine displaced the work of making the record.
- Speaker
- Alex Galbraith
- Capacity
- Senior writer publishing signed cultural commentary in Salon
- Observed
- September 9, 2026
- Published here
- September 9, 2026
- Targets
- Boy George
- Classification rationale
- The signed commentary directly condemns both the AI process and the resulting claim to artistic creation.
Surrounding material
Full context
Before the quotation
Galbraith contrasts writing and recording labor with prompting, approving, and distributing generated output.
After the quotation
He also condemns the song’s political content, so DI should distinguish that judgment from his authorship argument.
Evidence
Complete source record
Alex Galbraith argues AI did the creative work on Boy George’s track (opens in a new tab)
Signed commentary arguing that human effort in performance, arrangement, recording, and mixing is part of authorship and was displaced by AI.