Paul Pfanner spent a career in motorsport and media and never made music. Then a fake AI “artist” got under his skin, and he answered it by building a 16-song album with his own lyrics, and a 4-minute, 33-scene music video in under a month. What a machine can make, and the one thing it can't fake.

Last week Paul Pfanner argued the barrier to making anything had fallen away. So he wrote and produced an album in a week to test it, and came back with the harder question waiting on the other side: what part of the work, and what part of him, is still real.