Wayne Static - Infiltrator: Possibly Fake?
Since I first listened to Infiltrator when it was first shared by Matt Zane I have been confident that the entire track or at least portions of it are AI-generated. I know this is a bit of a big claim to try and say Zane shared a fake Wayne Static song but I have evidence backing this claim up that I feel also points to that conclusion.
The overall sound has a strangely tinny, compressed quality that has been prevalent in AI generated music since it's inception, particularly generated using the platform Suno. AI generated music has mostly evolved past Suno towards better platforms like Treblo/Sonauto but Suno is what I'm confident was used for Infiltrator. The guitar is what immediately tipped me off to the fact this might be AI, with it having the same artifacts and weird synthetic sound that Suno-generated electric guitars have. This isn't exclusive to Infiltrator, and has been pointed out on Reddit before, and I will link a post also explaining this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SunoAI/comments/1jy1or0/electric_distorted_guitar_sounds_fake/
Its also the exact same thing with the drums, having this weird compressed synthetic sound even though it's obviously mimicking live drums. The lyrics were another very weird thing to me, being that they just sound very generic and AI generated outside of the chorus. Lyrics like "Cold-wired heartbeat, system overload, static in my head, now the story's told" don't even scream poorly written to me, they scream AI generated to me as this is the exact type of generic writing that AI spits out trying to adhere to a specific prompt or expand on inputted lyrics. This is something I've noticed in the past when testing generating lyrics through models like ChatGPT or Suno.
The chorus vocals of the song are the only thing I think MIGHT be real, but even then I'm not very confident, as I assume it would be more difficult for AI to replicate Wayne's screaming. If so I would assume these real chorus vocals were inputted into Suno and used to generate a whole song around them, but once again I'm not completely certain on this.
The story surrounding the song is also a bit weird for me, as for the song apparently being "Unfinished" it sounds extremely overproduced, which is another characteristic of Suno AI generation, being that the results are usually very maximalist.
I've included a Dropbox link with not only the stems to Infiltrator so these weird artifacts/anomalies can be dissected more, but also containing several AI-generated songs I made with Suno around 3 years ago when it first came out which share many of the same sound qualities as Infiltrator [also included is the .wav for Infiltrator shared by Matt Zane himself as the auditory similarities will probably be more evident comparing the full song to the Suno generations]:
I'm not presenting this as definitive proof which is exactly why I want other people to examine this and see if anyone else notices these things. If anyone here has experience with audio production, AI music detection, Suno, or Wayne's unreleased material, I'd genuinely like to hear what you think. I'm particularly interested in whether other people hear the same artifacts I'm hearing or whether there's something else that explains this. I think there are some implications for this entire situation surrounding Zane and Static X if the track turns out to be fake or AI generated in some way, especially as the track came from Zane himself.
Link to how one would generate music with Suno for those who are curious as to how this would have been done: