Sioux Falls Imitator Lets AI Write His “Christian Conviction Rap”

In the latest local AI horror, Sioux Falls “artist and musician” Zac Davis is using artificial intelligence to churn out “Christian conviction rap”:

“I use AI to help make my Christian content music. It’s like a kind of a new style of Christian conviction rap. It’s really personal,” Davis said.

Davis said AI helps him develop music while keeping his work aligned with his Christian values.

“I use the AI to help make sure I stay biblically in line with the Christian values,” he said. “And I’m trying to make music for people to identify with to help bring them back to God.”

For Davis, the technology is less about replacing musicians and more about giving people another way to create.

He compares AI’s impact on music to the introduction of photography.

“I see it more as a benefit,” Davis said. “Just like the time when cameras came out, and painters thought that their jobs were over, that it was done, but it just opened up a new avenue” [Emelia Roberts, “The Musician vs. the Machine? Sioux Falls Artists See AI Differently,” KSFY, 2026.08.15].

Even when created purely by humans, “Christian conviction rap” is properly  abbreviated C-CRAP.

But everything Davis says is terribly, terribly wrong:

1. The words Davis barks into a mic are not “really personal” if a robot makes them. Such words are the impersonal product of a statistical analysis and extrapolation of millions of texts that the person who pushed the button has never read and can’t name.
2. AI output is not really “aligned with his Christian values” or anyone else’s. AI output is a soulless piecing together of text fragments conforming with an algorithm.
3. Chatbots don’t exist to “make sure I stay biblically in line with the Christian values.” They exist to play word games and make money for their creators.
4. Artists and other Christians worried about staying “biblically in line” should read the Bible. I hear that book pretty much covers everything.
5. More better biblical alignment, Davis could also turn to his priest or pastor, one of the human shepherds we send to seminary to help believers make sense of life and the Bible and God’s will.
6. Davis isn’t making music; the computer is.
7. Davis isn’t making “music for people to identify with”; how can humans identify with the outputs of an algorithm that itself has no identity?
8. Davis isn’t helping “bring [people] back to God”; how can a machine with no soul, no theological compass, bring any person to God?
9. The technology is not “giving people another way to create” any more than a trip to IKEA gives people another way to create. The technology is just giving Davis and other lazy wannabes soulless material to imitate.
10. Having AI write Davis’s C-CRAP is not “Just like the time when cameras came out.” Photography did not stop or undermine the fundamental creative act that Picasso, Mondrian, and Terry Redlin committed when they put brushes to canvas. No matter what they painted, even if it was Redlin’s photorealistic twilit geese and winterscapes, they still created real works of art, paint on canvas, every stroke conceived and weighed in their brains and executed by their hands. We can tell the difference between a painting and a photograph (and Ansel Adams never pretended his photographs were paintings). We can’t easily if at all tell the difference (and does Davis make the honest Christian distinction for his audiences?) between words Elvis or Paul Simon or Young MC or any other human lyricsmith wrote and sang and the textual outputs of chatbots. Posers like Davis are using artificial intelligence to rush material into production and performance that crowds out of the market real artists who take the time to create real art.

Zac Davis has a bad case of the full-of-shitskies. He’s imitating the outputs of a faithless machine and falsely claiming those outputs as his own works of art. AI doesn’t mind false claims—just like another famous deceiver, bots tell lies all the time!—but Jesus does. Any pastor or person of genuine Christian conviction can tell you that. Get right with the Lord, Zac, and make your own music, music with real soul!