Alice Cooper has spoken out critically about the development of artificial intelligence (AI) in the field of music. The 78-year-old rock singer fears that AI can create successful, non-existent rock artists and albums without involving human creativity or emotion.
“I could say to the AI: I want it to sound like Tom Petty and Freddie Mercury and this is what the album is about. Write the songs,” Cooper said on the American talk show Trunk Nation. However, the singer is skeptical about the outcome.
“Now you have a rock star that doesn’t exist, and you have an album that only exists in this world.” He also mentioned the legal issues that the situation entails. “What happens if it sells? Who gets the money?” said Cooper.
The Poison singer also stated that rock songs are not the same without human emotion incorporated into them. “It has no heart, it has no feeling, it has no soul, and that is exactly where it will fail.” Cooper is not saying that he hopes that AI can imitate human emotions in the future.
“Once they understand that, I don’t know what will happen to music.”
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