Kid Rock Reveals He Used AI on New Song with Eminem

Kid Rock’s song “Heal My Faith,” featuring his bud Eminem, also contained a previously unknown collaborator. Artificial intelligence. As Kid Rock revealed during his appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher, the newly minted Christian rocker used AI to create the choir on the chorus of “Heal My Faith.” Kid Rock confessed to using the technology after Maher asked about the musician’s thoughts on AI and challenged him by saying, “They can put out a Kid Rock song now that’s almost indistinguishable.” Kid Rock showed some hesitancy about AI, saying he doesn’t know where the technology will end up, before admitting that he used prompts to complete “Heal My Faith.” While he used real singers for the chorus of “7 Sins,” another song from his latest album Halfway 2 Jesus, the use of AI in “Heal My Faith” came down to saving time, Kid Rock explained. “I’m an impatient guy,” Kid Rock said. “It’s not about the money of getting a choir. But everything I look at in life now is time. How much time do I have?” Kid Rock described the process of prompting AI to create a facsimile of a Southern gospel choir, saying he loved the results. The admission sparked pushback from Maher. “A lot of people in a...