When Drake first started getting attention back in 2009, I was skeptical.

The guy was on degrassi, now he's a rapper, but then Drake got undeniably good.

But after a while, it felt like Drake stopped caring.

Like maybe he was just using a bunch of templates to write his songs.

And now, maybe machines.

The biggest Drake song in the country, as far as anyone can tell, wasn't written or performed by Drake.

How that happened, coming up on today's blind.

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This is an artificial intelligence version of Drake and you will listen until today's play.

Niela Patel is the editor in chief of the verge and the host of the Dakota podcast and I was a very bad copyright lawyer before I became a journalist, which really makes you the perfect person to talk about the intersection of AI and the most important thing.

And the most popular Canadian R&B goof nugget in the world Drake.

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