A couple of weeks in the past, Dangerous Bunny launched his new album Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana. It has 22 tracks, and it’s 81 minutes lengthy. With that in thoughts, it’s laborious to know why anybody would want extra Dangerous Bunny songs proper now, not to mention a faux Dangerous Bunny music. However some folks evidently really feel like they do want such a observe, and it’s lately gone viral on TikTok. Dangerous Bunny is not pleased about it.

The pattern of unauthorized AI-impersonation songs has been occurring all yr. At this level, you’ll be able to Google any mixture of standard artist and standard music and listen to a faux AI karaoke rendition. It’s occurring with new songs, too, and a few of these songs are attaining a measure of recognition. This previous spring, “Coronary heart On My Sleeve,” a faux Drake/Weeknd collab from a TikTok person referred to as Ghostwriter977 was faraway from streaming providers. One thing related appears to be occurring with this faux Dangerous Bunny music.

The observe in query, referred to as “Demo 5 Nostalgia” and posted by the nameless FlowGPT, has been going round on-line for a couple of month. It’s a replacement-level reggaeton music that additionally options the faux vocals of Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber. (The Bieber bot sings in Spanish.) As Remezcla factors out, folks have been posting movies of themselves dancing to the music on social media. The Spanish pop star Dangerous Gyal, who’s namechecked throughout the faux Dangerous Bunny verse, posted after which deleted one such video.

Earlier this week, Dangerous Bunny wrote in regards to the music on his WhatsApp channel. As Remezcla level out, Benito wrote, “should you guys like that shitty music that’s viral on tiktok, get out of this group proper now. You don’t need to be my associates and that’s why I made the brand new album, to do away with folks like that. So chu chu chu out.” (The “chu chu chu” is a reference to the faux music’s lyrics.

Dangerous Bunny’s anger might have a little bit of a Streisand impact, because it’ll in all probability alert extra folks to the existence of this faux music. However that’s the type of catch-22 that stars are in when AI deepfakes begin to flow into, and no person’s actually give you an efficient reply but.