{"id":4253,"date":"2024-04-19T21:20:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T21:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=4253"},"modified":"2024-04-19T21:20:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T21:20:04","slug":"how-a-23-year-old-fooled-the-world-with-an-ai-kendrick-lamar-diss-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=4253","title":{"rendered":"How a 23-year-old fooled the world with an AI Kendrick Lamar diss track"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A red button was pressed on Monday morning when a diss track from Kendrick Lamar mysteriously surfaced on\u00a0YouTube, featuring shots at Drake. <\/p>\n

Various members of Drake\u2019s OVO crew\u00a0implied\u00a0the song was authentic, but it turns out it was actually the work of artificial intelligence, and 23-year-old\u00a0Sy the Rapper\u00a0says he\u2019s the mastermind behind it all.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought people were going to know that it was AI,\u201d Sy tells Complex. \u201cAlthough it did sound real, it sounded like an old version of Kendrick Lamar. It didn\u2019t sound like his more up-to-date style, at least in my opinion. The style sounded kind of dated, so I just thought that would be a giveaway, but apparently it wasn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

The South Central LA artist had only been playing with AI technology for a year, and after successfully making a\u00a0Kanye AI song\u00a0a few months ago, he decided to insert himself in the escalating hip-hop war. <\/p>\n

\u201cI was going to make a Drake track first,\u201d Sy reveals with a chuckle. \u201cBut his track leaked, and I didn\u2019t really get around to doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

At this point, it\u2019s hard to believe\u00a0anything\u00a0you see on the internet, so when Sy made a TikTok video\u00a0revealing\u00a0that he\u2019s behind the AI Kendrick diss, he was understandably met with scepticism. In his initial video, he didn\u2019t show much proof that he actually made the song, and his TikTok page is full of jokes and parody videos, so a lot of people didn\u2019t believe his claims.<\/p>\n

And as he points out, some fans\u00a0wanted\u00a0to believe the track was real because of their allegiances in the rap war. \u201cI think some people are team Drake, so they run with whatever narrative that the Drake team puts out,\u201d he explained. \u201cBut I also think that maybe I didn\u2019t break it down enough.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be honest. Before interviewing Sy, I was skeptical, too. I believed that the song was made with artificial intelligence, but Sy\u2019s initial TikTok video didn\u2019t convince me that he was the one behind it, so I asked for proof. He promptly sent multiple\u00a0timestamped videos\u00a0and audio files of him rapping lines from the fake song in his own voice, before then applying AI filters to make it sound like Kendrick.<\/p>\n

As further evidence, he also sent\u00a0isolated stems\u00a0and the grid from the beat that he made. Hearing him rap lyrics from the song, before and after tech alteration, it\u2019s clear that Sy happens to be very good at rapping like Kendrick, plus he has an LA accent, which is part of the reason why his song sounds more convincing than hundreds of other AI Kendrick diss tracks circulating the internet right now.<\/p>\n

As a fan of Kendrick, Sy says he tried to put himself in the mindset of the Compton rapper when he wrote the lyrics. \u201cI just had to place myself in Kendrick\u2019s shoes, and it didn\u2019t seem like Kendrick would come out swinging for the kill, considering that the [Drake] song was a \u2018leaked\u2019 track,\u201d Sy points out, explaining why the song is full of noticeably mild bars.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Drake\u2019s leaked diss song] didn\u2019t officially drop. So I was thinking more so in the mindset of, \u2018If I\u2019m Kendrick, I wouldn\u2019t want to show my hand too early, since this song has been leaked and it\u2019s not an official drop, so I can\u2019t just come out swinging. I\u2019ve got to come out with sort of a warning shot.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

As artificial intelligence technology improves, fake songs are becoming increasingly prevalent (and believable). At a time of increasing disinformation on the internet, they\u2019re also potentially dangerous.<\/p>\n

AI creators like Sy have received justified criticism for making songs that deceive listeners, and he has no stakes in the beef between Kendrick and Drake, but when he saw people running with the narrative that Kendrick started the AI rumours as a ploy to disavow a weak diss, he decided it was time to come out and reveal that the song was fake.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really didn\u2019t think it would affect anything, but when I saw that narrative, I\u2019m like, \u2018Nah, I can\u2019t just let that rock,\u2019 because that\u2019s just not the truth. That\u2019s what made me debunk it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Follow this wild rabbit hole to better understand how Sy the rapper tricked the rap world into thinking Kendrick Lamar responded to Drake with his AI diss track.<\/p>\n

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