Alex Galbraith
Role at the time: Senior writer publishing signed cultural commentary in Salon
Condemned
Response to this claim
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 that hallucinates in exchange for electricity, only intensifies the sick, empty feeling the track leaves behind.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)Sorry, Boy George. AI can’t even make bad art
Signed commentary arguing that human effort in performance, arrangement, recording, and mixing is part of authorship and was displaced by AI.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Why we used this label
The signed commentary directly condemns both the AI process and the resulting claim to artistic creation.