Mastodawn

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/116332497422486698

this is digital blackface and racist as fuck.

whomever is doing this knows Black people are THE Culture; so how swell it is to make money off Black culture without Black people?

and don't get me started with the fact that automata are proxies for SLAVES.

don't hesitate to call out Alphabet/Google/Youtube for making money off Black digital slaves.

this isn't progress. this is still baldfaced racism.

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ahimsa

@blogdiva

Yep!

"There is also something disturbingly racist about the thing too. The bot is a caricature of a soul artist. Worse in its way than the white, blackfaced minstrels of the early 1900s."

source = https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/music/2026/04/01/eddie-dalton-ai/stories/202604010073

'A caricature of a soul artist': Pittsburgh musicians react to AI phenom Eddie Dalton

The latest addition to the brave new world is Eddie Dalton, a contemporary soul singer in the classic vein of Otis Redding. Dalton, depicted as a gray-haired...

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette