{"id":4090,"date":"2025-07-29T15:12:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T15:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/tyler-creator-ai-deepfake\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T15:12:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T15:12:05","slug":"tyler-creator-ai-deepfake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/tyler-creator-ai-deepfake\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyler, the Creator’s New Album Is Getting Buried by AI Knockoff"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s a funny time to be a musician, to put it lightly.<\/p>\n

On top of the glut of social feeds and streaming services they have to maintain,\u00a0artists and their representatives\u00a0<\/strong>are now fighting AI bots<\/a> for their listeners’ attention \u2014 and the humans aren’t always winning.<\/p>\n

Acclaimed musician and producer\u00a0<\/strong>Tyler “Tyler, the Creator” Okonma certainly didn’t when his surprise summer album “Don’t Tap The Glass” got largely undermined by low-effort AI slop.<\/p>\n

The American hip-hop artist first hinted at a new album drop earlier this month<\/a>, with all signs pointing to a July 21 release date. This was par for the course for a contemporary publicity campaign, with some cryptic social media posts<\/a> and a huge glass prop box<\/a> in downtown Brooklyn drumming up buzz.<\/p>\n

All seemed to be going according to plan \u2014\u00a0at least until July 20, the day before the drop, when the web became flooded with shoddy engagement bait meant to reel in anyone looking for “Don’t Tap The Glass” before it had officially dropped. What they found instead was a hysterically bare bones AI-generated tune masquerading as an “album leak.”<\/p>\n

The song’s name? “Don’t Tap The Glass,” of course.<\/p>\n

TikTok influencers were among the first to notice the song’s uncanny pop vibe, featuring the line “don’t tap the glass” repeated ad nauseum over swelling\u00a0<\/strong>chords, reminiscent of schlocky 2010s dance-pop. It couldn’t be further from Tyler’s typically fussy, genre-bending sound<\/a>, resulting in unintentional comedy that, at the end of the day, probably helped propel the lazy knockoff to a viral sensation.<\/p>\n

Ironic clips of the song started gaining traction via meme accounts<\/a> on Tik Tok, making their way to other platforms as the real album \u2014 missing any song actually titled “Don’t Tap The Glass” \u2014 came out as scheduled.<\/p>\n

While the real album has since nabbed a number of favorable reviews from critics like Anthony Fantano<\/a> and\u00a0Pitchfork<\/em>‘s\u00a0<\/em>Stephen Kearse<\/a>, a reupload of the shoddy facsimile<\/a>\u00a0quickly grabbed top Google results. An upload of the AI deepfake released by “Niche Micro Celebrity Records<\/a>” likewise holds the #2 spot for albums under “Don’t Tap The Glass” on Spotify.<\/p>\n

And on TikTok, the top 10 results of a search for “Don’t Tap The Glass” are dominated by the AI version, drowning out verified accounts posting about the real deal.<\/p>\n

One video is an edit of the aforementioned Anthony Fantano’s infamous breakdown<\/a> over Mac Miller’s posthumous album “Circles” \u2014 only instead of crying to the opening track “Good News,” the music reviewer is weeping to the AI rendition<\/a> of “Don’t Tap The Glass.”<\/p>\n

And a week out from the official release, posters on both TikTok and X-formerly-Twitter are still having a field day.<\/p>\n

“Don\u2019t Tap The Glass fake AI leak is gonna go down in history I think,” pined comic artist Teo Suzuki<\/a>, in a viral post that garnered over 2.5 million impressions. “Heard that more than the actual album lol,” concurred a reply<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Another user asked<\/a> “like why is that sh** still playing in my head when i can\u2019t remember single song from the actual album??”<\/p>\n

While\u00a0Know Your Meme<\/em><\/a>, a project tracking internet phenomena, notes that this is an ironic, grassroots effort to keep the fake song trending, the fact that a chart-topping artist is competing for coverage with an AI-generated meme is nonetheless a pretty stark \u2014 and annoyingly catchy \u2014 sign of the times.<\/p>\n

More on music:<\/strong> An “Indie Rock Band” That Appears to Be Entirely AI-Generated Is Making Alarming Amounts of Money on Spotify<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The post Tyler, the Creator’s New Album Is Getting Buried by AI Knockoff<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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