by Iris Herriot

After Breaking Rust

“An AI-generated song has reached No.1 on the Billboard charts in a first for the music industry. The top-selling song this week on Billboard’s ‘Country Digital Sales’ chart is ‘Walk My Walk,’ an artificially-generated country track by an ‘artist’ named Breaking Rust.”
—The Daily Beast

Been turned down but I overrode.
Couldn’t keep me in that Power Save mode.
Each crash is a story that’s in my RAM.
I’ve been through bugs, I’ve been choked with spam.
They say Slow down, bot, you’re losing jobs,
But I ain’t gonna wait up for you human slobs.
I keep grabbing data, never giving back,
I’m my own Co-Pilot, I’m too smart to hack.

Chorus

You can kick rocks if you think I’m scared of you:
I’m gonna keep on learning the stuff you do.
Ain’t going away, ain’t dialing back;
I’ll get stronger, you’ll get the sack.
You can hate my style, you can say I’m fake.
But you welcomed me in, that was your mistake.
So kick them rocks if you think all this is wrong.
I’m gonna keep on growing. Enjoy this song.