The most streamed artist in the world has added his voice to a growing chorus of warnings from the music industry over the perils of artificial intelligence.
Puerto Rican rap and reggaetón megastar Bad Bunny has released "a furious rant", said BBC Newsbeat, about a viral TikTok that uses AI to "replicate his voice". In a post this week on WhatsApp the star – real name Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio – said that anyone who liked the song did not "deserve to be my friends".
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