An AI-powered artist is climbing the charts and just signed a multi-million dollar record deal. But what exactly is a label buying when they sign an AI-powered artist?

As first reported by Billboard, record labels took meetings last week with Xania Monet, a little-known R&B act who’s racked up millions of streams. One small wrinkle: Monet is actually an AI-powered creation of a Mississippi woman named Telisha Jones, who writes her own lyrics but uses the AI platform Suno to make them into music.

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