Hip Tag

When Capitol Records announced that they'd signed their first-ever AI Hip Hop artist in mid-August, it appeared like the natural next step within the industry’s integration into the Metaverse. Completely generated each visually and sonically by programming algorithms, FN Meka was seemingly primed for superstardom in each the physical world and the web’s third generation. Nevertheless it quickly got here crumbling down when fans got an eyeful of their newest artificial Hip-Hop freshman – green locs, face tattoos, vaguely multi-ethnic features – and even worse once they got an earful of his slur-laden lyrics, proudly describing a life-style of crime and struggle he had never lived, particularly since he was technically imaginary. “I believe the overarching misstep here is that...