{"id":14205,"date":"2026-05-07T11:34:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=14205"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:38:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T18:38:21","slug":"stick-figure-gpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2026\/05\/07\/stick-figure-gpt\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick Figure GPT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/this-reggae-band-is-in-a-nightmare-battle-against-ai-slop-remixes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from WIRED<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This Reggae Band Is in a Nightmare Battle Against AI Slop Remixes<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>When Stick Figure\u2019s seven-year-old song shot up the charts, the band was thrilled. But its viral moment was spurred by unauthorized AI remixes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/author\/kate-knibbs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KATE KNIBBS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/69fa2d5eb7705358286eaf20\/master\/w_2560%2Cc_limit\/His-Song-Is-Going-Viral%25E2%2580%2594But-Its-All-Unauthorized-AI-Slop-Remixes-Culture-2-Additional%2520Photo.jpg\" alt=\"Image may contain Head Person Face Beard Body Part Neck Adult Photography Portrait Clothing and Hat\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>PHOTOGRAPH: KEITH ZACHARSKI \/IN THE BARREL PHOTO; COURTESY OF INEFFABLE MUSIC<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>THE CALIFORNIA-BASED REGGAE<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/category\/culture\/music\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">band<\/a>\u00a0Stick Figure has been around for 20 years, eight albums, and countless hours on the road, but lead vocalist and guitarist Scott Woodruff has never seen a track take off like \u201cAngels Above Me\u201d did this past week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The seven-year-old song\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kworb.net\/itunes\/artist\/diewbl.html#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hit number one<\/a>\u00a0on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/tag\/itunes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">iTunes<\/a>\u00a0sales charts in six different countries, including the United Kingdom, Austria, and Canada, skyrocketing \u201cout of nowhere,\u201d according to Woodruff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stick Figure has had plenty of thrilling milestones before, with albums\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dancehallmag.com\/2022\/09\/20\/news\/stick-figures-wisdom-first-album-to-debut-no-1-on-billboard-reggae-chart-in-over-two-years.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">repeatedly hitting number one<\/a>\u00a0in the reggae category, and hit singles amassing hundreds of millions of streams. But the speed at which this track went from a years-old sleeper to a smash was new. People were posting TikToks about it, gushing with enthusiasm. \u201cIt was exciting,\u201d Woodruff says. \u201cBut then once I found it was because of some version that was basically stolen and generated in one click, I mean, it\u2019s saddening.\u201d<br><br>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/this-reggae-band-is-in-a-nightmare-battle-against-ai-slop-remixes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at WIRED<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from WIRED This Reggae Band Is in a Nightmare Battle Against AI Slop Remixes When Stick Figure\u2019s seven-year-old song shot up the charts, the band was thrilled. But its viral moment was spurred by unauthorized AI remixes. by KATE KNIBBS THE CALIFORNIA-BASED REGGAE\u00a0band\u00a0Stick Figure has been around for 20 years, eight albums, and countless hours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14206,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14205\/revisions\/14206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}