Multi-award-winning Colombian singer, songwriter, and musician Camilo returns with a clever new love single, “Maldito ChatGPT,” which questions how we make decisions.
Camilo dives into the internal chaos of loving someone who may not “make sense” on paper and still choosing that person with your heart – even against the will of the “smarter” artificial intelligence. The track blends honesty and irony, emotional vulnerability with imaginative storytelling, and its tone is set with the sonic backdrop of Camilo’s signature pop-meets-folk sound. It’s poetic, it’s ironic, and it’s deeply real.
In his own words, shared on @camilo: “We live surrounded by quick answers. By formulas designed to avoid failure. By technologies that predict and know everything. By ideas about what love is supposed to look like. But there’s something that doesn’t fit into any logic. Or any checklist. Love isn’t a casting call. Love is something you feel. And nothing — and no one — can ever feel it for us.”
The official music video directed by Evaluna Montaner and Sebastian Andrade at El Taller Creativo in Miami nods to cult classic Office Space.In the visual, Camilo spirals in a dim, windowless office, surrounded by chaos: papers strewn on the floor, post-it notes scattered across the walls, and existential questions about his relationship filling the air as well as his computer screen. At one point, Camilo even swims atop a Xerox machine, stuck in a loop of indecision.
Camilo pleads for clarity, and eventually from ChatGPT, who supposedly knowshimbetter than he does. However he continues to search for answers: flipping a Magic 8-Ball, consulting a finger fortune teller, and pulling petals from a flower. The song sits in this tension — between knowing and not knowing what is real and true.
At the heart of the lyrics, Camilo asks if his love defies compatibility, reason, and well-intentioned advice from anyone (or anything), including artificial intelligence. The tongue-in-cheek title, too, playfully questions the increasing role of AI in our personal experiences: love, heartbreak, and indecision. What happens when technology reflects “truths” that we do not believe are true and do not want to hear?
“Tú no eres pa’ mí / Me lo dijo ChatGPT / Que me conoce más que yo mismo a mí / Y le volví a preguntar / Pero me dijo que no / Y yo quería que me dijera que sí…” (“You’re not for me / ChatGPT told me / Who knows me better than I know myself / And I asked him again / But he said no / And I wanted him to say yes…”).
This release of “Maldito Chat GPT” follows the culmination of Camilo’s triumphant “Nuestro Lugar Feliz” tour which wrapped this month in his hometown of Medellín, closing a whirlwind run through the U.S., Spain, and Latin America. The final show was part of La Feria, a hometown celebration with surprise guests including Morat, Nanpa Básico, Evaluna, Ricardo Montaner, and Mau y Ricky. More than a tour finale, it was a love letter to his TRIBU — his fans, family, and roots.
“Maldito Chat GPT” marks the beginning of a bold new erafor Camilo, one where emotion beats out algorithms 🙂 <3. With 6 Latin GRAMMY Awards and 3GRAMMY nominations under his belt, Camilo continues to carve out a space that’s uniquely his — heartfelt, artistic, and true to life.