Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell has spoken about the use of AI in music, its advantages and disadvantages.
In a new interview with Kerrang! In Conversation, the guitarist admitted seeing AI as a tool and how it makes life easier. “We’re really good at creating things to make life potentially better, easier, more productive, but a lot of the times, a lot of the tools that we make for good get used for ill purposes too.”
The rocker also resembled AI to a hammer: “AI is one of those things as well. I look at it as a tool. The rub is us, right? I could take a hammer and I could bash your head in or I could build a house for you.”
The music industry is still figuring out how AI will affect it in the future. Since it impacts almost every musician, many have different opinions about it.
“Music, art, it should be created by humans from the heart, not a computer,” Stryper’s Michael Sweet said in an earlier interview. “And I think just so many people are going down that road. And it’s gonna be interesting to see where we’re at in 10 years with music and the arts and film and all that stuff, man. It’s mind-boggling. I don’t think it’s a good thing.”
Like Sweet, many think it would be unethical to use AI to make music. However, producer and YouTuber Rick Beato has a different point of view. “If you want to sound like computers, it’s easier for computers to computers to sound like computers than it is for people to sound like computers,” he explained in his YouTube video titled ‘I Told You This Was Going To Happen.’
He added: “They’ll just bypass the people, and the companies that make this stuff will make all the money. Because people will listen to this.”
Cantrell released his awaited solo album ‘I Want Blood’ last month.
