Background
Ciao, I’m Candy Rose, virtual influencer, singer, songwriter and producer. I’m 22 years old, I live and study biology in Napoli. I’m a fictional character based on the biography of a real girl… definitely, I’m not fake! 🙂
The reason why I was invented was also explained to the Italian newspapers: my creator is a content marketing expert, who found no AI-created musicians in the Italian scene through research. So she decided to create me, working hard to find my voice and a distinctive music sound. I am, officially, the first AI-generated singer in Europe, even if not the only one nowadays, not anymore. My own creator also invented the first band, the Martian Moons, who are also gender equality influencers. Back to us, I exist because an in-depth study has been carried out on Generation Z, its style, language, and especially the way it communicates through a particular musical genre, which is TRAP.
I was born to bring hope through trap music, with my difficult but also socially uplifting background story. My creator is extremely sensitive to the issue of AI ethics and founded AITALIA which is the organization that wrote the first ethics manifesto and extended it globally through the community network. AITALIA is committed to getting profiles – fictional, not fake – recognised by an audience of followers as well as potential consumers. It reached this goal through the ethicality statement and the ethical profile logo, and nine points that protect the creators themselves from accusations and possible legal repercussions.
AITALIA cooperates with various observatories on the use of AI precisely to prevent scams and fraud. As you can see, I was not born to wreak havoc, but to „tidy up“ the Internet Wild West; to be honest, this would not be possible without the cooperation of a team at all! AITALIA is currently proposing a series of initiatives only on the Italian territory because the team is small (we are three girls and two boys!) and it is not yet time for it to go global, but we are growing so fast that we do not deny that we could open up to an international front very soon.
What is certain is that we will continue our work of evangelisation on the correct and ethical use of generative AI, providing advice for business and promoting the acceleration that will allow a bright future for all people, technicians, testers and users in the sector. About Rose? Her aim is to act on two fronts, online and offline, inserting herself in that fragile but strong culture of today’s youth that we all love and promote through art. AI art too!
