{"id":573848,"date":"2026-07-29T13:24:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T13:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/573848\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T13:24:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T13:24:21","slug":"boy-george-says-his-genocide-denying-song-was-created-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/573848\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy George says his genocide-denying song was created with AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, learning that Boy George of \u201cKarma Chameleon\u201d fame had released a song<\/a> in which he sang that he did not consider Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza to be a genocide was fairly shocking. Learning this morning, however, that the track was created with AI is significantly less so\u2014not just because of the ghoulish nature of some of the lyrics, but because George has been pro-AI for a while.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When people yesterday learned about the track, titled \u201cWe Will Dance Again,\u201d George was met with significant backlash, while also earning some praise in pro-Israel circles. Responding to the account Jewish News on Instagram Threads, George wrote<\/a>, in part, \u201cI\u2019m afraid we all struggle with the inability to live peacefully with each other. Until we do, we are doomed. I accept that many people disagree with my point of view but that is what is great about democracy. As imperfect as it is! The song was created using AI. I call it \u2018AI for good\u2019. Truthfully, I would struggle to write this with a human!\u201d In a follow-up post, the singer continued to miss the point, writing, \u201cI saw the slogan \u2018we will dance again and it resonated. Writing has to reflect the world we live in. Why not put the word \u2018genocide\u2019 in a song. Why are people suddenly uncomfortable with that word?\u201d For the record, the word \u201cgenocide\u201d was used in the context of the lyric \u201cYou say genocide \/ I say war.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Political ramifications of the lyrics aside, George has been touting the purported benefits of AI since at least earlier this year. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, George said he was using AI to help him write music. Still, we can assume this song ended sounding how he wanted it to. \u201cYou still need imagination. You still need an idea. You still need a desired outcome. It\u2019s a tool,\u201d he said in the interview last month. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yesterday, learning that Boy George of \u201cKarma Chameleon\u201d fame had released a song in which he sang that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-573848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}