Alex Galbraith on AI Music and Creative Authorship

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Disputes over authorship, creative labor, disclosure, and platform treatment when generative AI contributes to music or audio.

Scope: Distinguishes assistive tools from generated performance and records disagreements about thresholds without presuming that every use of AI has the same creative or legal significance.

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1 total published event · Inclusive range: August 6, 2026–August 6, 2026

August 6, 2026Condemned
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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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Senior writer publishing signed cultural commentary in Salon
Editorial rationale
The signed commentary directly condemns both the AI process and the resulting claim to artistic creation.
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.

View context Did Boy George remain the author of an AI-generated song?