The rapper who provided the voice for controversial A.I. robot FN Meka is threatening to sue Capitol Records for backing out of a deal after intense backlash! Last week, the company announced they had ...

Let’s get the “offensive” part out of the way. There are two parts here; one is the idea that creativity can be automated like so many other industries, forcing true artists to compete with digital ...

When Capitol Records signed so-called robot rapper FN Meka earlier this month, it billed the move as a new frontier in the music industry. But just weeks after the Black male cyborg debuted its first ...

So much for the future of the arts, and music in particular – at least for the time being. Capitol Records, one of the biggest record labels on the market, just dropped the world’s first “robot rapper ...

When we first covered the emerging field of lovotics, the science of human-robot love, we had no idea that it would turn out to be one of the most popular stories ever published on ExtremeTech. It ...

"They came to me with this A.I. s*** and was like would I want to be the voice of it, and I thought it was going to be some collaboration," Kyle said in the clip. "They promised me equity in the ...

Capitol Records has cut ties with FN Meka, an “AI-generated virtual rapper,” after the project came under fire from groups accusing the character of appropriating Black culture, repeatedly used the ...

AI expert Charles L. Isbell, Jr. spoke with us about the ethics behind FN Meka, and how AI rappers — and AI artists in general — are going to become more prevalent as technology evolves. In less than ...

It only could have ended this way. On Tuesday, August 23, I began kicking around ideas for an op-ed on FN Meka, the virtual-reality rapper created by Factory Now who has drawn attention for the use of ...