It then came under fire for its response video, which showed the recording’s workflow in an attempt to confirm that AI had not been used in its creation. Some believed the pitch and tempo discrepancies between the original demo and the response proved AI had in fact been used. “We share the growing alarm that generative AI can remove the musician from the creative process,” the statement begins. “In a recent post featuring one of our products, many people questioned whether we employed generative AI in our demo track. As for the discrepancies present in the session video, D’Addario explains the response clip showed a pre-mix and pre-master demo.