Danny Bones may look like a regular British lad putting his frustration with politics in rap rhymes. Except he is entirely generated by artificial intelligence (AI).
With straightforward lyrics and catchy tunes, Bones’ songs explore themes like immigration, crime, inequality, and national identity. In the song “Traitors Freestyle,” for example, he raps about the government’s plan to make people get rid of their “heritage and pride.”
The video clip for “Shut Up” takes viewers to a dystopian version of the United Kingdom, reminiscent of George Orwell’s famous novel 1984, where surveillance is rampant and free speech is limited.
Bones videos are produced by the anonymous influencer “collective” called the Node Project. According to its website, everything the collective built “has been built organically” without outside funding.
However, an analysis from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) suggests that the far-right party Advance UK paid the collective to produce its main campaign video.
In addition, some of its Bones content was recently repurposed for the Gorton and Denton byelection campaign.
A senior figure at Advance UK told TBIJ that the Node Project was “a joy to work with” and said the party plans to commission more content from them. However, they didn’t say how much they paid for the project.
Bones’ video clips feature another well-known AI-generated character, Amelia. Initially created by the government to teach schoolchildren about extremism, she was soon hijacked by the right-wing actors to spread their agenda.
AI music is increasingly politicized
AI-generated music promoting far-right views has been gaining traction in other European countries, often coinciding with elections.
Around the time of the Dutch national election in late 2025, the anti-asylum song about “flooding” the country with the people “who don’t belong here” and “asylum seekers with fatbikes, iPhones, expensive coats” climbed up the charts.
Written by an anonymous creator who goes by JW Broken Veteran and sung by an AI voice, the song was streamed over a million times on Spotify before it was removed, according to the NL Times.
In 2024, an AI-generated song called “Je partira pas” (I won’t leave) went viral in France. In a video, a young AI woman was seen dancing and singing that foreigners will leave the country sooner than they think and that French people “have given the foreigners enough.”
Bones addresses voters’ concerns
It's hard to pinpoint the effect that politicized AI music may have on election results. In the Netherlands, the centre-left progressive political party D66 claimed victory in 2025. The left-wing alliance secured most seats in France’s general assembly in 2024.
However, AI-generated music is part of a wider trend of far-right parties exploiting generative AI technology for creating content that’s often racist and xenophobic.
According to the European Digital Media Observatory, the far-right uses AI-generated content to “convey an effective and emotionally powerful message, engaging and profoundly ideological.”
While Bones’s songs may lack artistic sophistication, they do a good job of capturing voters’ concerns.
A recent Ipsos survey suggests that 66% of Brits think that immigration levels are too high.
Nearly nine in ten (88%) of Britons are concerned about the cost of living, and 55% say crime is an issue facing the UK today, according to the Office for National Statistics.
The UK will hold a general election in May 2026. The right-wing party, Reform UK, leads the polls with 23%, closely followed by the Conservatives and Greens.
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