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Beartooth Pull Video Just Hours Before Release Over ‘Lying’ AI Artist Controversy

Beartooth’s new single was to be released with an accompanying lyric video, but the band learned that the artist who made it used AI tools.

By Stephen Andrew Galiher

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Metalcore maestros Beartooth just pulled a planned lyric video from release due to AI controversy surrounding it. Hours ahead of the clip going live, the band canceled it. Their reason? The artist who made it lied to them about the use of AI.

“Hello all you lovely people, we posted a teaser this morning for a new song that was flagged for AI,” frontman Caleb Shomo penned in a message on social media. “The artist we commissioned for this project assured us adamantly throughout the process that no AI was used to create this lyric video.”

“Unfortunately, after a lot of red flags and conversations this morning, we now know for a fact that was not the case,” Shomo continued. “We have no interest in using AI or........

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