Fenix Flexin Reverses AI Denial for 'Rubberz' — SkimNews
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- Fenix Flexin appeared to concede on Instagram that AI was used for "Rubberz," writing: "never said I didn't use AI, i said it had nun to do w recording process," and framing AI as "new technology as a tool"
- Producer Medasin posted videos claiming the AI tool Treblo (formerly Sonauto) created "Rubberz," and Treblo subsequently released an AI detector that identified the track as AI-generated
- During a prior on-air interview on Hot 97's Mornings With Mero with Kazeem Famuyide, Fenix stated clearly there's "no AI on it" — a direct contradiction of his current Instagram claim that he never denied AI use
- Fenix Flexin and his team had previously posted alleged recording session clips and insisted the song was made by two humans in his living room using "pro tools auto tune and some reverb"
- Fenix said he didn't know about the AI app "till we mixed it and erbody started commenting," though he had repeatedly and publicly tried to dispel the AI allegations since the song's release
Why it matters: Fenix's reversal from 'no AI on it' on Hot 97 to 'never said I didn't use AI' on Instagram directly contradicts his prior public denials and his team's human-only production claims — and lands just as competitor Tyga openly admitted AI use for his own '80s-themed $tarface album, resetting the genre's norm around AI disclosure.
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