An AI-generated Christian artist named Solomon Ray has taken the gospel music world by storm after topping the iTunes and Billboard charts with his album “Faithful Soul.”

Described as a “Mississippi-made soul singer carrying a Southern soul revival into the present” on his Spotify profile, Ray made waves after releasing the five-song EP on Nov. 7. //

“At minimum, AI does not have the Holy Spirit inside of it,” Frank, 30, said. “So I think that it’s really weird to be opening up your spirit to something that has no spirit.”

Townsend later fired back in an Instagram video of his own.

“This is an extension of my creativity, so therefore to me it’s art,” Townsend said following the backlash against his AI creation. “It’s definitely inspired by a Christian. It may not be performed by one, but I don’t know why that really matters in the end.” //

“There’s something in the high end of the vocals that gives it away,” he said, according to Christianity Today. “And the creative choices sound like AI. It’s so precise that it’s clear no creative choices are really being made.”

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“How much of your heart are you pouring into this?” he added. “If you’re having AI generate it for you, the answer is zero. God wants costly worship.”