7 Compelling Pieces Of Evidence That Kanye West Isn't Real

2. Creative AI Has Developed Sufficiently To Pull It Off

One major question you might (rightly) ask is, why? Why would somebody bother to create a fake "rapper" and self-proclaimed second coming of the artistic world?

The answer is progress. The Kanye Project fits perfectly in the context of our technological journey.

In our continuing research into artificial intelligence, there are lots of different areas that we have to develop - self awareness is one of them, but creativity is another. By now, we can create computers that are able to perform a million calculations a second, and robots with the ability to lift several tonnes, but it is only more recently that we've been getting them into the arts.

Google recently sat their AI chatbot down with a few thousand books, including 3,000 steamy romance novels, and it began to write poetry so melancholic as to rival a first-year english lit major. A different AI is even claimed to have passed the Turing Test with its poetry, after having it published in a literary journal as a human work.

Another computer has also painted a masterpiece in the style of Rembrandt, so if our computers are getting into poetry and fine art, why not music?

Speaking of the Turing Test, we come to the second "why" of the KanyeBot. What better way to see if your artificial intelligence is convincing enough, than unleashing it on an unsuspecting public? He might be a bit odd, but the fact that you think he's real could be exactly the breakthrough his creators were hoping for.