内容来源：https://www.wired.com/story/ai-music-app-treblo-just-snitched-on-rubberz-song-of-the-summer/

内容总结：

AI生成歌曲争议发酵：说唱歌手Fenix Flexin与Tyga被指用AI制作热门单曲

今年夏天，一首名为《Rubberz》的歌曲在说唱圈引起轩然大波。这首由Fenix Flexin于6月发布的单曲目前位列Billboard Hot 100第58位，音乐视频播放量突破700万。然而，围绕这首歌最大的争议并非其成绩，而是它究竟是否由人工智能生成。

风格突变引发质疑

《Rubberz》并非传统说唱歌曲，而是一首带有80年代风格的合成器流行曲。更令人疑惑的是，歌曲中的声音与Fenix Flexin以往标志性的鼻音浓重的说唱嗓音截然不同，反而更接近歌手Morrissey的明亮清晰音色。

自歌曲发布以来，Fenix及其制作人Purps on the Beat一直否认使用AI，Fenix声称歌词是即兴创作，声音差异只是由于自动调音、混响效果以及他刻意模仿的"假英国口音"所致。

制作人实锤指控

上周四，音乐制作人Medasin发布视频，声称已破解Fenix使用AI创作歌曲的方法。他指出Fenix使用的是名为Treblo的AI音乐生成应用（该应用在《Rubberz》发布前两天才由Sonauto更名而来）。Medasin展示了Fenix此前Instagram故事中的截图，其中可见文件后缀为"Sonauto.mp3"。

更有说服力的是，Medasin通过输入"80年代合成器浪潮"等标签和"说唱歌手生活方式"等歌词提示，成功生成了与《Rubberz》极为相似的歌曲。两首歌曲在歌词上存在大量惊人巧合，如"钻石项链沉重悬挂"与"现在我买了条沉重的钻石项链"等高度雷同的表达。

作为回应，Fenix当天在Instagram发布了所谓的"原始工程文件"试图自证清白，但音乐制作人们迅速指出该文件看起来只是用"音轨分离器"从成品歌曲中提取的组件。数小时后，Fenix删除了这条帖子，此后再未回应。

Tyga也卷入风波

两天后，Medasin再次发布视频，指控Fenix的同门歌手Tyga的新项目《$TARFACE》也至少部分使用了Treblo生成。他将Tyga的歌曲输入新型AI检测器，结果显示为AI生成。

Treblo公司"神补刀"

值得注意的是，Treblo联合创始人Ryan Tremblay表示，公司此前并不知道《Rubberz》的存在，直到它登上Hot 100榜单才注意到。上周日晚，Treblo发布了自己的AI音乐检测工具，经测试，《Rubberz》被标记为"极可能由Treblo生成"，Tyga七月初发布的歌曲也被标记为"可能由Treblo生成"。Treblo声称该检测器的误报率低于万分之一，并已将代码开源供公众检验。

行业反响与争议

这一事件恰逢各大平台纷纷推出AI内容识别功能。LinkedIn、Substack等平台近期都上线了相关标记功能；美国参议院也提出了《AI标签法案》，要求平台明确标注AI生成内容。

然而，Medasin的视频评论区中，许多网友表示即使歌曲是AI生成的也无所谓，甚至有人认为AI是未来趋势，指责Medasin是嫉妒Fenix的成功。

Medasin则表示："这是音乐史上的关键时刻。我对音乐人的创作历程和人类经验在音乐中的呈现怀有深深的敬意。"他认为艺术家应当诚实告知听众创作方式，让听众自行判断，并称"在灵性层面上，这种行为（隐瞒AI使用）是不道德的"。

这场关于《Rubberz》是否由AI生成的争论，似乎在Treblo官方检测器的"实锤"下画上了句号。但对于粉丝们来说，新的争论才刚刚开始：如果歌曲确实是AI生成的，这重要吗？

中文翻译：

如今已不存在所谓的“夏日神曲”了，但如果你喜欢说唱音乐，Fenix Flexin的《Rubberz》绝对是个强劲的竞争者。

这首歌于六月正式发布，目前在Billboard Hot 100榜单上位列第58名，音乐视频播放量已达700万次。从歌词来看，你想要的一切它都有：炫耀金钱和珠宝，以及既能解读为吹嘘又能解读为抑郁的双关歌词。

但《Rubberz》有两个有趣的转折。首先，它压根不是一首说唱歌曲；它是一首合成器流行乐曲，放在一张忧郁的80年代歌单里毫无违和感。其次，自发布以来，它一直是抄袭指控的焦点——有人声称这首歌完全或部分由AI生成。

这场争论在上周末达到了顶峰，一位独立音乐制作人声称他不仅搞清楚了Fenix是如何制作《Rubberz》的，还发现这位说唱歌手的同厂牌艺人Tyga似乎也使用了一款鲜为人知的生成式AI音乐应用来制作他自己的80年代主题歌曲。

而现在，那款AI音乐应用的创造者实际上把两个人都“出卖”了：该服务新内置的检测器现在将Fenix和Tyga的歌曲都标记为疑似AI生成。

这或许终于能为粉丝们整个夏天争论不休的问题画上句号。但它无法平息他们即将开启的下一场争论。

调音

人们对Fenix从一开始就心存疑虑；《Rubberz》不仅对这位艺人来说是一次不寻常的风格转变，而且歌中的声音听起来也不像他本人。

Fenix Flexin在东好莱坞长大，他的口音就带着那里的痕迹。当他在2010年代末作为Shoreline Mafia组合的一员出道时，你总能听出哪些歌词是他的部分，因为他那略带鼻音、像是感冒堵住的声音很有辨识度。然而，他在6月5日发布的《Rubberz》中的声音完全认不出来。那声音明亮得多、清晰得多，口音听起来更接近一个非常活泼的Morrissey。

他和署名的制作人Purps on the Beat都在每一个环节否认使用了AI。Fenix告诉Channel 5，歌词是他“即兴发挥”的，在On the Radar表演视频的评论区中，他回复那些指责他使用AI的人说：“不不不不不，和我的其他音乐一样录的！唯一的区别是自动调音混响和我用了假英国口音哈哈。”

并非所有人都接受他的解释，但也拿不出相反的证据。随着夏天继续推移，音乐媒体一直在争论《Rubberz》是否由AI生成。但所有知名的AI音乐检测器都没有标记它，Fenix也否认了，这首歌继续积累着播放量。粉丝们别无选择，只能接受这个悬而未决的问题。

然后，情况突然发生了变化。周四，一位名叫Medasin的音乐制作人发布了一段视频，声称他搞清楚了Fenix是如何使用AI制作这首歌的。

不是Suno，也不是Udio——这两个最知名的生成式AI音乐工具。相反，Medasin说，Flexin使用的是一款名为Treblo的较小众应用。Medasin有条不紊地拆解了他的指控：首先，他指出这款应用在《Rubberz》发布前两天还叫Sonauto。然后他展示了一张Fenix旧Instagram动态的截图，其中预告了他新的80年代风格。经过定格和放大，可以看到屏幕上显示的一个文件名带有“Sonauto.mp3”的后缀。

但最有力的指控来自Medasin展示他如何用Treblo制作出一首非常相似的歌曲。通过使用“80年代合成器浪潮”等标签，并提示应用创作关于“说唱歌手生活方式”的歌词，Medasin得到了一首听感相似的歌曲。歌词甚至与《Rubberz》有着不止是粗略的相似度。

例如，Medasin的提示词得到了歌词“Diamond chains hanging heavy”（钻石链垂得沉重）；而《Rubberz》中有“Now I bought a heavy diamond chain”（现在我买了条沉重的钻石链）。Medasin生成歌曲中有“I see your face in the champagne bubbles”（我在香槟气泡中看到你的脸）；Fenix的歌中则有“Still seeing your face in the glass”（仍在水杯中看到你的脸）。两首歌都出现了“pockets thick”（口袋鼓鼓）的某种变体，都提到了“plastic smiles”（塑料笑容）。

“巧合太多了，”Medasin在接受WIRED采访时说。“他没有用Treblo，这在数学上就是不可能的。”

不过这一切让我很好奇。Treblo会允许我重新创作一首“《Rubberz》风格”的歌曲吗？事实证明：可以。

通过输入“80年代合成器浪潮”等标签并要求它创作说唱歌词，我不仅得到了相似的声音，还得到了相似的歌词结构。

在我第一次尝试中，我生成了一首歌（你可以在这里听到），其中有一对句“Rings on every finger / Leather seats and cedar scent linger”（每个手指都戴着戒指/皮座椅和雪松香气萦绕），这几乎是《Rubberz》中“Gold rings on my fingers / Still your perfume lingers”（手指上戴着金戒指/你的香水味仍在萦绕）的镜像复制。我继续生成歌曲。即使稍有变化，每次我将“80年代”标签与“说唱歌词”提示结合，都得到了类似的结果。

如果说ChatGPT似乎喜欢地精、破折号和“不是X，是Y”的结构，那么Treblo的引擎似乎痴迷于“finger/linger”的押韵对，喜欢谈论戒指、玻璃和口袋，以及那种从夜晚过渡到白天的主题转换的歌曲结构。

Medasin说他在一个月前就发现了Treblo的秘密，但他一直保持沉默；他觉得会有某个记者去做这繁重的调查工作，为公众把这些线索串联起来。这确实在小范围内发生了，也许最彻底的是在一个名为Zinstrel的AI音乐新闻网站上，但它从未真正引起广泛关注。Medasin的视频是第一个获得大量关注的。

随着周四一天过去，Medasin的视频指控似乎触动了人们的神经。当天下午，Fenix在Instagram上发布了一段视频，声称是《Rubberz》的原始工程文件。如果属实，这将证明这首歌不是AI生成的；《Rubberz》是在录音室里从零创作的。

但音乐制作人们立刻涌入评论区，许多人声称所展示的工程文件看起来可疑——像是有人拿了一首现成的歌曲，用“分轨分离器”将整首歌提取为贝斯和鼓等基础组件；这反而指向它就是一首他们无法从头创作的AI歌曲。

几小时后，Fenix删除了这条帖子。他和Purps on the Beat此后都没有回应那段“证据”视频，也没有解释为什么将其撤下。WIRED向两人发送的评论请求均未得到回复。

然后，又来了一个。两天后的周六，Medasin发布了另一段视频，这次指控Tyga的新项目$TARFACE至少部分使用了Treblo。他先从一些松散的关联入手：社交媒体上有Tyga和Fenix在一起的视频，两人在同一家厂牌，同样突然从说唱歌手转型为80年代情歌歌手。但此外，他让一位朋友开发的新AI音乐检测器运行了Tyga的一首歌，被标记为AI生成。

但直接听Treblo自己怎么说更有说服力。

“似乎有人使用我们的模型找到了一种数百万人产生共鸣的声音，”Treblo联合创始人Ryan Tremblay在被问及评论时表示，“这令人兴奋。”

Tremblay说，Treblo此前从未与Tyga或Fenix有过接触，公司“甚至不知道《Rubberz》的存在，直到它进入Hot 100榜单之后。”

未来可能无需再向Treblo询问具体歌曲了。周日深夜，Treblo发布了一个名为“这首歌是用Treblo做的吗？”的页面。简而言之，它是一个Treblo音乐检测器。“我们也认为听众应该知道他们在听什么，”一篇博客文章解释道，将其描述为一个“经过调校，能够检测出使用Treblo制作且几乎没有修改的歌曲”的工具。

果不其然，将《Rubberz》输入该工具，返回的结果是“非常可能是Treblo”。将Tyga在7月初发布的一首歌曲运行检测，返回结果是“可能是Treblo”。

Treblo网站称，误报率低于万分之一；不到百分之一。该检测器的有效性尚未经过独立审查，但Treblo已以开源许可证发布了代码，任何人都可以检查并测试它。

WIRED向Tyga的厂牌发送的评论请求未得到回复。

是垃圾还是不是

这一切的时机恰逢各平台对AI生成内容做出姿态的趋势。就在Medasin发布第一段视频的同一天，LinkedIn推出了一项新功能：一个“看起来像AI”的按钮，允许用户标记帖子中的AI垃圾内容。两周前，Substack发布了一项据称能检测AI撰写的通讯的新功能。Tidal已阻止AI生成音乐的变现，而虽然Spotify没有AI标记功能，但有一个众包追踪器，你可以向其他听众举报垃圾内容。

过去几年图像和视频生成器的激增引发了人们对机器制作内容和虚假信息传播的担忧。美国参议院提出了一项两党合作的《AI标签法案》，作为部分解决方案：迫使平台在AI生成内容上显著标注，以便人们清楚网络内容是否真实。“人们有权知道，”一位参议员告诉Politico。

我们本应预料到的是，会有人不想知道。如果你破坏了幻想，就会有人生气。

Medasin第一段视频的评论区充满了这类声音：有人说反正他们喜欢《Rubberz》，不在乎这首歌是不是AI做的。有人说AI是未来，Medasin只是嫉妒Fenix先想到了这个点子。

Medasin说他并不意外这种反应。他承认自己第一次听到这首歌时就喜欢上了，现在仍然以一种讽刺的方式欣赏它。“它很上口，在我脑子里转了一个月，妈的，”他说。那他为什么要冒着被一群人当成阴谋论板子上的那个人的风险呢？

最终，Medasin说，他认为AI在音乐中可以有一席之地，即使他个人不喜欢。但他希望艺术家们说实话，这样听众才能自己做决定。

“这是音乐史上的一个关键时刻，”Medasin告诉WIRED，“我对音乐家、人类以及人类体验在音乐中被庆祝和呈现的旅程怀有非常非常深的敬意和热爱。”他谴责任何在这件事上欺骗他人并从中获利的人。“在我的精神层面，这是不道德的，”他说。

音乐爱好者们花了半个夏天争论一首爆红歌曲是否是合成的。看来他们有答案了。现在他们只需要决定这件事对他们来说有多重要。

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There is no such thing as a universal “song of the summer” anymore, but if you’re into rap music, Fenix Flexin’s “Rubberz” is a pretty strong contender.
Officially released in June, it currently sits at No. 58 in the Billboard Hot 100 and has a music video with 7 million views. Lyrically, it’s got everything you’d want: boasts about cash and jewelry, and bars that work as a double entendre for braggadocio and depression.
But there are two interesting twists to “Rubberz.” First, it isn’t a rap song at all; it’s a synth-pop tune that would be at home in a moody ’80s playlist. Also, since it dropped, it’s been the focus of accusations that it was completely or partially AI-generated.
The argument reached a peak this weekend after an independent music producer claimed he’d figured out not only how Fenix had made “Rubberz” but that the rapper’s labelmate, Tyga, also seems to have used a little-known generative AI music app to create some ’80s-themed tunes of his own.
And now, the creators of that same AI music app have effectively snitched on both: The service’s new built-in detector is now flagging the songs made by both Fenix and Tyga as likely AI-generated.
This may finally settle the argument fans have been having all summer. It won’t settle the one they’re about to start.
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People were suspicious of Fenix from the beginning; “Rubberz” is not only an unusual genre shift for the artist, it also doesn’t sound like his voice in the song.
Fenix Flexin grew up in East Hollywood, and he sounds like it, and when he debuted as part of the group Shoreline Mafia in the late 2010s, you could always recognize which bars were his because of his somewhat nasally, congested voice. The voice on his June 5 release of “Rubberz,” however, is completely unrecognizable. It’s a lot brighter and crisper, and the accent sounds closer to a very chipper Morrissey.
Both he and the credited producer, Purps on the Beat, have denied using AI at every turn. Fenix told Channel 5 that he “freestyled” the lyrics, and in the comments of an On the Radar performance, he replied to people accusing him of using AI: "No sirrrrrrr, recorded same as all music I do! Only difference is auto-tune reverb and me using my fake uk accent lol."
Not everyone bought his explanation, but there was no proof otherwise. As the summer continued, music media debated whether “Rubberz” had been AI-generated. But none of the well-known AI music detectors flagged it, Fenix denied it, and the song continued to rack up plays. Fans had no choice but to get comfortable with the question being unresolved.
Then, things shifted suddenly. On Thursday, a music producer named Medasin posted a video claiming he’d figured out how Fenix used AI to make the track.
It wasn’t Suno, or Udio, the two most prominent generative AI tools for making music. Instead, Medasin says, Flexin had used a lesser-known app called Treblo. Medasin breaks down his accusation methodically: First, he points out that the app used to be called Sonauto until two days before “Rubberz” was released. And then he shows a screen cap of one of Fenix’s old Instagram Stories teasing his new ’80s sound. A freeze-frame and zoom reveals that a filename being shown on screen has the suffix “Sonauto.mp3.”
But the most compelling accusation comes when Medasin shows how he was able to use Treblo to create a very similar track. By using tags like “80s synthwave” and prompting the app to write lyrics about a “rapper lifestyle,” Medasin got a similar-sounding song. The lyrics even bear more than a passing resemblance to “Rubberz.”
For example, Medasin’s prompt got him the lyrics “Diamond chains hanging heavy”; “Rubberz” has “Now I bought a heavy diamond chain.” Medasin’s generated song gave him “I see your face in the champagne bubbles”; Fenix’ song has “Still seeing your face in the glass.” Both songs feature some permutation of “pockets thick,” both mention “plastic smiles.”
“There's just way too many coincidences,” Medasin said in an interview with WIRED. “It is just a mathematical impossibility that he did not use Treblo.”
This all made me curious, though. Would Treblo allow me to re-create a “Rubberz”-style song? It turns out: yes.
By entering tags like “80s synthwave” and asking it to make rap lyrics, I got not only a similar sound but similar lyrical structures.
In my first try, I generated a song (you can hear it here) with the couplet “Rings on every finger / Leather seats and cedar scent linger,” an almost mirror duplicate of the “Rubberz” line “Gold rings on my fingers / Still your perfume lingers.” I continued to generate songs. Even with slight variations, any time I combined an “80s” tag with a prompt for “rap lyrics,” I got similar results.
Whereas ChatGPT seems to like goblins, em dashes, and “it’s not X, it’s Y” constructions, Treblo’s engine seems to be obsessed with “finger/linger” rhyme pairs, talking about rings and glass and pockets, and song constructions in which there is a thematic transition from night into day.
Medasin says his Treblo revelation happened a month ago, but he kept it quiet; he figured some journalist would do the legwork of connecting the dots for the public. This did happen on a smaller scale, perhaps most thoroughly on an AI music news site called Zinstrel, but it never really broke through. Medasin’s video was the first to capture attention.
As Thursday went on, it seemed that Medasin had struck a nerve with his video accusation. That afternoon, Fenix posted a video on his Instagram page of what he said was the original project file for “Rubberz.” If authentic, this would serve as proof that the song was not AI; that “Rubberz” had been created from scratch in a studio.
But music producers immediately jumped into the comments, with many claiming that the project file being shown looked suspiciously like someone had just taken an existing song and used a “stem separator” to extract a full song into rudimentary components like bass and drums; which would point back to it just being an AI song that they couldn’t create.
Hours later, Fenix deleted the post. Neither he nor Purps on the Beat have addressed the “evidence” video since, or why it was taken down. Requests for comment sent to both by WIRED went unanswered.
Then, another one. Two days later, on Saturday, Medasin dropped another video, this time alleging that Tyga’s new $TARFACE project is also at least partially using Treblo. He starts with some loose connections: videos were posted on social media of Tyga and Fenix together, both are on the same label, the same sudden rapper-to-’80s crooner pathway. But also, he ran a Tyga song in a new AI music detector a friend is developing, and it was flagged as AI.
But it’s more convincing to hear directly from Treblo itself.
"Someone appears to have used our model to find a sound that millions of people connected with,” Treblo cofounder Ryan Tremblay said when asked for comment, “and that's exciting.”
Treblo had not previously spoken to Tyga or Fenix, Tremblay says, and the company wasn’t “even aware [“Rubberz”] existed until after it hit the Hot 100.”
Asking Treblo about individual songs might not be necessary in the future. Late Sunday night, Treblo published a page titled “Was This Made With Treblo?” In short, it’s a Treblo music detector. “We also think listeners should know what they're hearing,” a blog post explains, describig it as a tool that is “tuned to detect songs made with Treblo with little to no modification.”
Sure enough, feeding “Rubberz” into the tool returns a result of “Very likely Treblo.” Running a track that Tyga dropped in early July returns a result of “Likely Treblo.”
The rate of false positives, Treblo’s site says, is under one in 10,000; a fraction of a percent. The detector’s efficacy has not been independently reviewed, but Treblo has released the code under an open source license so anyone can inspect it and test it.
Requests sent by WIRED to Tyga’s label for comment were not returned.
Slop or Not
The timing of all this coincides with a trend of platforms making gestures toward AI-generated content. The same day that Medasin posted his first video, LinkedIn rolled out a new feature: a “seems like AI” button that allows users to flag AI slop in posts. Two weeks ago, Substack released a new feature that purports to detect AI-written newsletters. Tidal has blocked monetization of AI-generated music, and while Spotify doesn’t have an AI tagging feature, there’s a crowdsourced tracker where you can report slop to other listeners.
The proliferation of image and video generators over the past few years has provoked worries about the spread of machine-made content and misinformation. A bipartisan AI Labeling Act in the US Senate has been suggested as a partial solution: forcing platforms to visibly label AI-generated content so that it would be clear whether online content is real or not. “People deserve to know,” one senator told Politico.
What we should have anticipated was that there would be people who don’t want to know. People who would get angry if you ruin the fantasy.
The comment section of Medasin’s first video is full of this: people who say they like “Rubberz” anyway, that they don’t care that the song is AI. That AI is the future and that Medasin is just jealous that Fenix thought of it first.
Medasin says he wasn’t surprised by the reaction. He admits he liked the song when he first heard it and still somewhat enjoys it in an ironic sort of way. “It's catchy, and it was stuck in my head for a fucking month,” he says. So why risk a bunch of people looking at him like he’s the guy in the conspiracy board meme?
Ultimately, Medasin says, he thinks there can be a place for AI in music, even if he doesn’t like it personally. But he wants artists to tell the truth, so listeners can decide for themselves.
“This is, like, a critical moment in music history,” Medasin tells WIRED, “and I have very, very deep respect and love for the journey of musicians and humans and human experience being celebrated and present in music.” He decries anyone who would be deceptive about that and profit off of it. “It is unethical to me on a very spiritual level,” he says.
Music fans spent half the summer arguing over whether a surprise hit song was synthetic. It looks like they have an answer. Now they just have to decide how much it matters to them.
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