Who is Breaking Rust? And why are country music fans so upset after they topped a Billboard chart?

“Walk My Walk,” by Breaking Rust, hit No. 1 this week on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart, a list of the most-downloaded tracks in the U.S. The artist sounds like an outlaw country singer with “mud on my jeans” and “a worn-out hat and a six-string strap.”

“Ain’t slowing down, I was born to rise. So kick them rocks if you don’t like how I talk. I’m going to keep on talking and walk my walk,” the lyrics continue.

But it’s fake. The artist is an artificial intelligence creation, releasing an EP of AI songs last month that have taken off online. Even the images of “Breaking Rust” are computer-generated, showing a man with a cowboy hat, bandana and a chiseled jawline.

Yet Breaking

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