The same song was danced to on one platform and mocked on another
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Provenance is now among the first things an audience asks of a made thing, and it is the one thing the artefact itself cannot show. The same track was danced to in June and mocked in August, and nothing about the track had changed; what changed was the room, and in the second room some of the audience were asking where it came from. The detector misfires in both directions: fans, if the studio is right, mistook its draughtsmen for a machine, and families use a machine's template to show that a daughter has her mother's face. What decides the reception, on this thin evidence, is whether the machine stands where a person was expected.
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Know Your Meme's account of "GG EZ", which it calls an AI-generated K-pop song, is that the track was released in late May, spread through the summer to more than 144,000 uses of its audio on TikTok and more than 16 million plays on Spotify in three months, and that when its official video reached X at the end of August it went viral, in the site's words, in a far different way: criticism and memes, some of them going after the song for being AI-generated. On 18 September Universal and Sony sued ...
Provenance is now among the first things an audience asks of a made thing, and it is the one thing the artefact itself cannot show. The same track was danced to in June and mocked in August, and nothing about the track had changed; what changed was the room, and in the second room some of the audience were asking where it came from. The detector misfires in both directions: fans, if the studio is right, mistook its draughtsmen for a machine, and families use a machine's template to show that a daughter has her mother's face. What decides the reception, on this thin evidence, is whether the machine stands where a person was expected.