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【Can the Cry of a Soul Be Brought Out With a Prompt? A Night of an Old Fart Sips Cheap Booze Amidst the Mary J. Blige Unauthorized AI Ad Controversy】 The curtain of night falls, and a sphere of cheap whiskey ice clinks against the bottom of a glass. As always, it’s Memphis Ray here. Today too, I’ve fired up my worn-out amplifier and am chewing over the bittersweet blues of life. Now, let me ask you out there in front of the screen. Do you think a machine can sing of "human pain"? Lately, the folks in Silicon Valley have been unanimously holding forth on the future of music, boasting that masterpieces can be born with the push of a single button. But just the other day, a curious incident rolled in that threw cold water on all that high-tech arrogance. "Suno," the darling of generative music AI, dropped an ad online featuring none other than the Queen of Soul, Mary J. Blige—only for it to come out that they hadn't gotten her permission at all, forcing them to hurriedly yank the ad down.…