{"id":267958,"date":"2025-11-17T14:45:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T14:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/267958\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T14:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T14:45:16","slug":"bbc-introducing-branded-disrespectful-for-championing-artist-who-created-song-using-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/267958\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Introducing branded &#8216;disrespectful&#8217; for championing artist who created song using AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Other musicians have reacted with fury to the decision to platform someone who uses AI to create music, over many other artists who are struggling to get recognition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Birmingham-based songwriter Mollyxo, slammed the decision in a viral TikTok video and voiced her fears about how it could impact future musicians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">She called the show an &#8220;absolute joke&#8221; and revealed that she has formally complained to the BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">&#8220;I cannot explain to you how disrespectful it is for a show like the BBC Introducing, which is a platform for independent artists to get heard, noticed and recognised for their talent that they&#8217;ve put years and years into, into learning new skills, honing their skills, to be good enough to be spotted by BBC Introducing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">She said independent artists rely on platforms such as BBC Introducing to give recognition to &#8220;real musicians&#8221;, not those who use AI to create songs for them. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">A BBC spokesperson told Rolling Stone UK: \u201cEach track is considered based on its musical merit and whether it is right for our target audience, with decisions made on a case-by-case basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">In a statement, the BBC said: \u201cEach track is considered based on its musical merit and whether it is right for our target audience, with decisions made on a case-by-case basis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Other musicians have reacted with fury to the decision to platform someone who uses AI to create music,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-267958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}