I found a female singer named Talura Tarantula on the Internet. She is a small black woman, extremely skinny, with a sharp gaze. Her limbs are covered with tattoos. Her hungry spirit is obvious, and she seems to symbolize a world on the verge of collapse. Her music is a fusion of blues rock and folk rock. Her sound is classic, and her singing is also unusually good. She is a great singer, and I would love to listen to her CD carefully. If possible, I would like to go to her live performance. With that in mind, I searched for information about her, but I could not find anything other than photos and audio. There was no live performance video, and no detailed profile. She seems to be American, but there was no information about her. This sparked my curiosity, and I was determined to find out more about her at all costs. And finally, I found out. She was an AI. Someone had set up a fictional female rock singer as a personal project and was performing music on the Internet. Her appearance, voice, and music all seem to be created by AI.
“Oh, so she was an AI.” I was taken aback. Even if it’s AI, it’s fine as long as the music is good, but when I found out it was AI, I found myself looking for strange flaws, thinking, “Is that why he can produce such a high, deep voice?” or “Is that why his voice quality is different from the previous song?” I guess I’m old-fashioned. When I find good music, I want to hear it performed live by a real person. Even if the performance is great, when I find out that it’s computer sound produced by AI, I immediately lose interest. I’m sure we’ll see more and more AI musicians like Talura Tarantula. It’s not hard to imagine AI creating music that is more accurate and of higher quality than humans, and becoming a successful business. But I still prefer music made by real people. I like live music made by real people, even if the pitch is off and the performance is inaccurate. I guess I’m old-fashioned. (Kei Kitajima)

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