Breaking Rust has reached the top of the Billboard Country Digital Song Sales chart with its single “Walk My Walk.”

This normally would bring praise for an emerging artist, but the song was created by artificial intelligence, The San Francisco Chronicle reports . It’s the first time a song created by AI has reached No. 1 on the country digital songs chart.

This has caused some concerns in the music industry, Newsweek reports .

Aaron Ryan, editor at the country music site Whiskey Riff , tells NPR the song is “catchy ‚” but adds it’s unclear where the song came from. The Chronicle reports Breaking Rust’s songs are credited to Aubierre Rivaldo Taylor, describing him as “an obscure figure.”

Taylor is connected to an AI music project called Defbeatsai, but it’s unclear if he’s a rea

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