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Writer and senior editor whose Salon commentary argued that AI performed material creative work on Boy George’s recording.
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Boy George remained the song’s author because he wrote its lyrics and melody and used AI as a creative collaborator.
“The fact that no one made it, that it’s the creation of a machine, only intensifies the sick, empty feeling.”
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Bandcamp removed Boy George’s “We Will Dance Again” under a policy barring music generated wholly or substantially by AI. Boy George had disclosed using AI but said he wrote the lyrics and melody, treated AI as a collaborator, and remained the song’s author. He challenged the platform’s ability to detect and consistently police AI music. Bandcamp cited its preexisting AI rule. Boy George also alleged that political objections to the song’s pro-Israel message prompted the removal; the available record does not establish that motive.
