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No, My Music Video Wasn’t AI-Generated. But Let’s Talk About AI McCarthyism.
I’ve seen comments online accusing my music video, “Zero Hero,” of being AI-generated. They don’t just claim that I used it for a little help. They’re insisting the video is 100% generated with machine learning. Normally, I wouldn’t bother to dignify this kind of thing. I figure most of my genuine audience knows how much care I put into every musical note, word choice, line of code, and pixel I produce. And I believe anyone whose unfamiliar with me but who has even the slightest understanding of film (or AI itself) would be able to understand that only a human…
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Sinners and the Unbreakable Rhythm of Black American Creation
[featured_image_caption] SPOILER WARNING: This essay contains major spoilers for Sinners. If you have not yet seen the film, proceed at your own risk! I’m a musician. A Black musician. A Black woman musician. One who happily bounces between genres, sometimes within the same song or within the same phrase. So, when I watched Ryan Coogler’s Sinners this week, it didn’t just hit me. It burrowed deep, setting up camp in my brain and heart. (If you haven’t seen the film yet, for the love of all that’s cinematic, GO WATCH IT NOW!) It’s a film I haven’t stopped thinking about since that first…
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