Christian hip-hop artist Derek Minor has weighed in on the concern that Christian artist Forrest Frank has about the top Christian album on iTunes being from an AI artist. Frank said it didn’t “sit right” with him and pointed out that AI does not have the Holy Spirit. In his response, Minor pushed back, noting that many Christian songs are written by non-believers or have contributors who are not Christians.
“Here’s the problem with that perspective,” said Minor, referring to Frank’s point that AI does not have the Holy Spirit. “There’s a lot of Christian songs that people love today that had people that weren’t Christians write the songs, that helped with the songs.”
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Or it could have been that people who were not Christians “played guitar on the songs, or bass or drums.” Minor also brought up splice loops used in hip-hop. “What if an atheist made that splice loop that you took and put drums on and and, you know, made your Christian song to?” he asked.
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“What if the person that’s using the AI is a Christian?” Minor went on to say. “They love God, and they just use the tools to their advantage? Maybe they’re not a talented artist, maybe they’re not a talented writer, but they have taste, and they wanted to worship and they used AI to do it?”
Derek Minor Pushes Back on Forrest Frank’s View
On Nov. 19, Forrest Frank alerted his social media followers to the fact that an artist whose album was topping iTunes’ Christian chart was not a real person but an AI artist called Solomon Ray.
“I think it’s important that we just pause a little bit and kind of ask the question of like, is this something that we want?” Frank said. “At minimum, AI does not have the Holy Spirit inside of it. So I think that’s really weird to be opening up your spirit to something that has no Spirit.”
“I already don’t listen to secular music, and I’m sure not gonna be listening to AI Christian music,” said Frank.
In his post responding to Frank, Minor began his caption by saying, “First off, big respect to @hiforrest. To the FRANKECOSTALS, I don’t want NO SMOKE. Here’s MY TAKE.”
Christian hip-hop artist Derek Minor has weighed in on the concern that Christian artist Forrest Frank has about the top Christian album on iTunes being from an AI artist.Click to Post
