By Van Badham
Publication Date: 2025-11-20 22:59:00
Xania Monet is the latest digital nightmare to emerge from the hellscape of AI content production. No wonder it’s popular… but how long will it stay that way?
The musical version of AI “actor” Tilly Norwood, Xania, is a composite product made from digital tools: in this case, a photorealistic avatar accompanied by a sound created by computers that resembles that of a human voice singing words.
Those words are apparently the most human thing about her: Xania creator Telisha “Nikki” Jones has said in interviews that the lyrics—unlike the voice, face, or music—are “100%” hers and “come from poems she wrote based on real life experiences.”
“Xania” cannot refer to these experiences, only approximately what is borrowed from a library of recorded cases of actual people interpreting texts with the resonance of personal associations. Some notes may sound like Christina Aguilera, others like Beyoncé, but – unlike all the others…
