OTTAWA — On Nov. 1, Xania Monet appeared for the first time on the Adult R&B Billboard chart. One week later, the song ‘Walk my Walk’ by Breaking Rust topped Billboard’s country digital song sales chart.

While both performers look and sound human, they’re not. Both are generated by artificial intelligence.

Monet was the first AI-generated artist to debut on a Billboard airplay chart.

For human artists, it is immense cause for concern.

“I’m seeing increasingly people are scared and they’re angry and they are upset about what’s happening here,” Arun Chaturvedi, president of the Songwriters’ Association of Canada, said in an interview when asked about the reaction to AI-generated artists.

“As it was, 100,000 songs are being uploaded to Spotify a day from human creators, and now that just

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