Commentary
A friend recently sent me a song she loved. “It’s beautiful,” she said. “The lyrics are really touching and the melody’s so calming.” I listened. The lyrics were gentle, uplifting. The music was soothing. But to me—a longtime content creator familiar with the latest AI production tools—something was off. I immediately recognized the lifeless vocals. The phrasing had no breath, there were glitches in tone and intonation. The instrumental backing was overly generic, as if lifted directly from a royalty-free chord library. I didn’t have to look it up. I already knew: the entire song was AI-generated, from lyrics to vocals to music production. Then came the question I didn’t want to answer: Should I tell her?
