"The #1 song on this week’s Billboard Country Digital Song Sales chart is a song called “Walk My Walk,” by an artist called Breaking Rust.

Now, if you’ve never heard of Breaking Rust, it’s because they’re not a real artist. The song is credited to someone named Aubierre Rivaldo Taylor, who is also behind an “artist” called Defbeatsai which posts some…well, pretty raunchy AI-generated songs.

While the Instagram page for Defbeatsai discloses that the songs are AI-generated, the IG for Breaking Rust describes it as only “Outlaw Country” and “Soul Music for Us,” with no mention of that music being created entirely by a machine.

So how can we be sure that Breaking Rust is also AI-generated? Well, Billboard themselves admitted it in an article just this week on other AI artists appearing on the charts.

Breaking Rust has racked up over 30k followers on Instagram since joining back on October 15, although a quick look through the followers and comments makes it seem like a lot of those may be bots too. But even more disturbing, Breaking Rust is up to 1.8 million monthly listeners on Spotify."

https://www.whiskeyriff.com/2025/11/08/an-ai-generated-country-song-is-topping-a-billboard-chart-and-that-should-infuriate-us-all/

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