{"id":68441,"date":"2025-09-16T22:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T22:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/68441\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T22:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T22:34:06","slug":"kpop-demon-hunters-writer-says-he-used-ai-to-write-soda-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/68441\/","title":{"rendered":"KPop Demon Hunters Writer Says He Used AI To Write \u2018Soda Pop\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

OpenAI officially has a Korean office. Normally, that wouldn\u2019t be news we would cover here at Kotaku, but KPop Demon Hunters<\/a>, Netflix\u2019s animated musical phenomenon, was apparently brought up during the generative AI organization\u2019s launch event for its new Korean subsidiary on Monday, September 15. Vince, a prolific K-pop producer who wrote songs performed by the film\u2019s demonic boy band group called the Saja Boys, made an appearance at the Seoul event. That\u2019s annoying in and of itself, but he also apparently dropped the bomb that he used AI to help write the group\u2019s infectious song \u201cSoda Pop.\u201d<\/p>\n

OpenAI technical staff member Sherwin Wu said in a since-deleted tweet<\/a> that Vince said he used ChatGPT to write \u201cSoda Pop,\u201d and that the generative chatbot \u201cgave him ideas to make it sound \u2018more bubbly.’\u201d This occurred during an on-stage discussion with Oliver Jay, OpenAI\u2019s Chief Business Officer. Korea Joongang Daily<\/a> reports that Vince said this was an example of how AI is \u201calready used in K-pop production,\u201d but this is notably not a direct quote, as the original article was written in Korean and \u201ctranslated by a bilingual reporter with the help of generative AI tools.\u201d The publication\u2019s original Korean article<\/a> includes mentions of Vince using ChatGPT, but doesn\u2019t call out KPop Demon Hunters or \u201cSoda Pop\u201d by name. We\u2019ve reached out to the outlet for clarification.<\/p>\n

At the moment, there doesn\u2019t seem to be footage of Vince\u2019s talk on the internet, but we\u2019ve reached out to Netflix and OpenAI for comment on the situation. Based on these accounts, it sounds like Vince used ChatGPT to help ideate the song that would eventually become \u201cSoda Pop,\u201d but AI was not used to generate the song that appears in the film. Rei Ami, one of the vocalists behind the voices of the fictional girl group Huntr\/x, has been very vocal about the real people behind every performance<\/a> in the film ever since accusations of AI use have sprouted up in the wake of the film\u2019s colossal popularity.<\/p>\n

Even if the final song is all produced and sung by real people, fans are feeling burned knowing AI may have played any part in the creation of the film, given its worldwide success<\/a> and how it\u2019s become a poster child for people advocating for new ideas in the animation industry in the face of never-ending sequel slop. We\u2019ll update this story if we hear back from Netflix or if Vince makes an official statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI officially has a Korean office. Normally, that wouldn\u2019t be news we would cover here at Kotaku, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,19,17,4923,337],"class_list":{"0":"post-68441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-kpop-demon-hunters","13":"tag-music"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}