The Algorithmic Anthem: How AI Songs Conquered the TikTok Feed

Scroll through TikTok for more than five minutes, and you are bound to encounter a familiar sensory loop: a hypnotic 15-second hook, a hyper-specific visual trend or dance challenge, and millions of views. But look closer at the audio credit. Sometimes, the artist listed doesn’t actually exist. The vocals were synthesized, the lyrics were whipped up via a text prompt, and the beat was engineered entirely by machine learning.