Mariah Carey wants her fans to know that a recent video of her on Spotify was not AI-generated.
The video,she says, was just poorly lit.
Were never going to be free of Mariah Careys All I Want For Christmas Is You.
Mariah Carey wishing you all a Merry Christmas.© Image via Spotify Wrapped.
AI could keep it alive forever.
This all started because of a Spotify Wrapped video.
This year, artists recorded personalized messages for their mega fans on the music streaming service.
Careys video feels off.
@MariahCareywith an exclusive message for her top fans on Spotify Wrapped.
Its stilted and awkward.
Her head seems to stay in place, eyes locked forward, while her body shifts around.
A lot of people who watched the video thought Carey had used AI to communicate with her fans.
Bad lighting and a red lip have you all thinking this is AI??
Shesaid in a post on X. Theres a reason Im not a fan of either of those things!
Theres too much money to be made.
As these systems have become more sophisticated, no corpse is sacred.
In 2012, Snoop Doggdanced with a hologram of Tupac Shakurat Coachella.
Twelve years later, Drake used an AI-powered Shakur to rap in a diss track about Kendrick Lamar.
Disney has leveraged AI to augment Star Wars films with both the living and the dead.
AI Peter Cushinghaunts bothRogue Oneand aHammer horror documentary.
Ian Holm died four years ago, but hestarred inAlien: Romulus this year.
The Elvis version of this iscoming to London in 2025.
One day, Mariah Carey will be scanned and cataloged.
Machines will capture her perfect voice and pour over every photo and video of her captured in the 1980s.
There should be a natural churn to pop culture.
Songs, movies, and ideas should age and die.
Art should be forgotten, rediscovered, and recontextualized.
All this old art sits on top of us, stultifying the culture.
The young have a harder time breaking into the cultural consciousness when the old are kept young by machines.
Every year since I was a child, Mariah Carey signaled the beginning of the Holiday season.
Well be trapped with her forever, her iconic voice floating from the mouth of a simulacrum.
In the future, everything will be bad lighting and red lipstick.
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