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Mystic Story is in the midst of shooting themselves and unfortunately Billlie in the foot.
The company recently released the teaser with the convoluted title of Cartography Of The Unconsious for their upcoming album with the usual convoluted title, The Collective Soul And Unconscious: Chapter Two, and it was amusingly for a B-side called “$ecret No More”
Fans then criticized the teaser for use of generative AI, one that appeared to plagiarize the art style of the French short film Niccolo. Those accusations peaked when co-director David Florian directly denounced the teaser, “So gross. This band used our film ‘Niccolò’ to create an AI slop music video.”
The creators then released a response.
Mystic Story then dug their hole deeper, as CEO Jungsu Han posted what basically amounted to an impassioned rant defending the use of AI by artists.
To their credit, Billlie’s fans stayed on his ass and got another response from him where he disavowed future use of generative AI.
I will listen carefully to every word you share with us out of your love and care for Billlie.
— Jungsu Peacedelic Han (韓peacedelic正洙) (@peacedelic_su) April 23, 2026
Going forward, there will be no unnecessary use of AI in the work of Billlie or Mystic Story's artists. And for the work of the artists who collaborate on our artists' projects, my…
Uh, we’ll see, I guess. I would be that “necessary use” part is load bearing for him. But I’m guessing for obvious reasons he hasn’t addressed the plagiarism allegations themselves, or they’d have to delete their work to this point. So not that sorry, apparently. Fans have pointed out they’ve made similar promises in the past and … here we are.
It is funny that a guy who seems so thoughtful and passionate about art and artists that he really doesn’t seem to care that his AI appears to have copied from another work or that continued use of it is inevitably going to lead to more problems in that vein itself because … that’s how gen AI works.
