Blur’s Damon Albarn says “we’re gonna need more drugs to get through absurd AI”

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Blur‘s Damon Albarn has hit out at AI, branding it “absurd”.He criticised covers of the band’s hits featuring AI versions of Frank Sinatra, Michael Buble and Snoop Dogg.Albarn told The Sun: “It’s absurd.

Anyone who has so much time to sing songs through a Michael Buble filter and put them on the internet is a fucking idiot. If the AIs are the future of music, we’re gonna need better drugs to get us through it.”His comments come after John Lydon shared his thoughts on AI earlier this week.When asked about his views on its ever-increasing impact on the arts, the Public Image Ltd frontman said: “Who’s in charge and who’s feeding the information and giving the guidelines to these artifices?

What or where is the moral code? It has infiltrated young people’s minds now to the point of total domination. What will this create?”He continued: “My advice is make small steps against this – and get that fucking Siri or whatever out of your house.

It will ultimately make decisions for you, and that’s very dangerous.”Stereophonics frontman Kelly Jones also recently criticised the use of artificial intelligence in songwriting.Jones said: “I’m not against forward-thinking technology and how things are progressing, but I think art should come from people, I mean the basics of it anyway.