Chart topping blues singer is definitely AI as label claims to be ‘way forward for sound’
A record label, which claims their ‘catalogue showcases the future of sound’, did not tell audiences their blues singer Eddie Dalton was not a real person before he hit the charts
Eddie Dalton does not exist(Image: Eddie Dalton/YouTube)
A blues singer whose soulful voice led him to peak at No. 2 in the UK charts has been revealed to have no soul at all – as the artist is actually an Artificial Intelligence (AI) abomination. Despite the music industry’s supercomputer fears, the label managing the artificial artist, Crusty Records’, has claimed their work “showcases the future of sound.”
Eddie Dalton, the computer generated ‘musician’, has a very respectable 484K monthly listeners on Spotify. Despite not actually having ears to appreciate his own music, the artificial robot’s track “Another Day Old” has peaked at No. 2 on the official UK singles chart.
Earlier this month, the AI artist dropped their first 10 track solo album titled “The Years Between” with numerous songs from the album bringing home hundreds of thousands of listeners. The AI sensation’s greatest hit – the track “Another Day Old” – has been listened to more than a million times on Spotify.
Dalton is Crusty Records’ latest hit artist as the label claims their work “specialise in building distinctive artist brands” and their “catalogue showcases the future of sound.”
The Music Union has called for real artists’ copyright to be protected from AI models. This is due to AI models needing to base their generative creations off of art which already exists due to AI not having original thoughts.
The Union states on their website: “Tech firms should not be able to use your music to train their artificial intelligence (AI) models without your consent.
“Big tech companies want to use songs, recordings and other creative works to train their AI models for commercial purposes without asking or paying the original creators or rights holders.
“The MU is fighting for consent, credit and fair compensation for all creators for the use of their work to train AI models.
Eddie Dalton is not the first AI artist to find success on the charts. Last year the AI-generated band, The Velvet Sundown, topped the charts and issued a very eerie statement about AI musicians being part of “the future of music itself.”
In a statement confessing their artificial origins the band stated: “The Velvet Sundown is a synthetic music project guided by human creative direction, and composed, voiced, and visualised with the support of artificial intelligence.
“This isn’t a trick – it’s a mirror. An ongoing artistic provocation designed to challenge the boundaries of authorship, identity, and the future of music itself in the age of AI.
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