Songs That Mention California That Were
Made Using Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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This is a list of songs that mention California that have been made with Artificial Intelligence programs (AI). Most of them use generative AI, which, according to AI search results, is "... a type of artificial intelligence that creates new content, such as text, images, audio, video, and code, based on patterns it learns from existing data."

All of the songs on this list were available to listen to online when I added them, but not long afterwards several of them were taken down from YouTube. That could be due to copyright issues involving how the AI program was trained on existing music, which has been an ongoing legal problem for AI companies. Some of the artists on this list have also already disappeared from YouTube. The use of AI in music and elsewhere has created a lot of controversy. It has led to demands for labeling when it has been used (similar to food labels that must list artificial ingredients.) Spotify and YouTube both have systems for disclosing if AI has been used, and Apple Music will require it soon. Bandcamp has banned AI songs. In 2026, Australia banned AI songs from its music charts, after a cover version of Madonna's "Like A Prayer" became a massive hit. But it's increasingly hard to know how much of a song was made by a computer and how much was made by humans because some songwriters and producers are using AI along with human-made music and lyrics, and because so much pop music already uses auto-tune, pitch correction, quantizing, and other kinds of electronic processing, and many pop songs are created by teams of producers and writers. All of these things tend to remove a lot of the human individuality from the music, leaving us wondering if they're all made with AI.

It doesn't seem to matter to a lot of listeners if a song is made by humans or computers since fully-AI-created songs accompanied by AI-generated images of fake band members are already getting millions of streams. This easy use of AI programs to make music has angered musicians and songwriters who fear they could become obsolete. When the use of electronic synthesizers and samplers and drum machines became common in some genres of music in the 1980s, some musicians complained that they would take away the need for human musicians, but that didn't happen. Maybe fully-made AI music will take over the entire music industry and we will go to concerts with only computers and robots on stage, or maybe AI will become just another tool used by human musicians. It's going to be interesting to see and hear what happens.

This list was started in 2025 with only a few titles on it. As AI is used more in music production the list will most likely keep growing since it's so easy now to make AI songs and videos. You can now go online, type in a description, and an AI program will make a complete song for you in minutes. They can also make a music video complete with AI musicians, and album cover artwork. (The artwork used on this page took ChatGPT only a few seconds to make, after asking for an album cover for California songs made by AI. I understand why it added the ocean and palm trees, but why the headphone-wearing fembot?) In 2025 several YouTube channels released interpolations of 2Pac and Dr. Dre's "California Love" re-imagined as electric blues, Motown, 1950s Jazz, and 1950s R&B, all with similarities that might indicate they were influenced by each other or made by the same programs. In 2026, YouTube Channels using the word "Vintage" in their name started posting original nostalgic songs and videos about California in the 1960s that celebrate that time as less complicated and better than the present.

Songs That Mention California That Were Made Using Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Songs That Mention California That Were
Made Using Artificial Intelligence (AI)