Deepfake case study · Multi-modal
Music Industry, Human Artists deepfake (Nov 2025)
An AI-generated artist named Breaking Rust hit number one on Billboard's Country Digital Song Sales chart with a track called Walk My Walk. The artist was created sometime around mid-October. The Instagram profile…
- Incident date
- Nov 2025
- Target
- Music Industry, Human Artists
Updated May 6, 2026 · 1 min read
An AI-generated artist named Breaking Rust hit number one on Billboard's Country Digital Song Sales chart with a track called Walk My Walk. The artist was created sometime around mid-October. The Instagram profile features AI-generated music videos showing a rugged, denim-wearing country crooner, but it doesn't mention that the entire thing was made by machine learning software. AI R&B singer Xania Monet hit number one earlier this month.