In a recent chat with Ghost Cult Magazine, Lacuna Coil’s male vocalist Andrea Ferro slammed artists relying on AI over hard work.
“I think technology, as usual, is not good or bad,” the singer said. “It depends the way you use it. If it’s an extra tool to make your life easier and faster, that’s okay. But if it has to substitute the creativity of a person, that I don’t like personally.”
He went on to explain why he prefers the human creativity, “I prefer to use human creativity because humans are great because they make mistakes, and from a mistake, usually that’s where great things happen.”
“Whatever you do — you write a book, you write a song, you write a movie — when you f*ck up or you make a mistake, and you can go there and see and realize what’s special, how special it becomes with the mistakes, that’s where you find a new way,” Ferro added.
The rocker further shared, “You learn something new, you create something new and unique because you never would have thought about it in the correct way.”
“So I think that can’t be replaced by machine, at least not yet. And so I think human touch is very important. And there’s no need to use A.I. [art for album covers]. If you find the right artist, it’s not even that expensive,” Andrea stated.
He concluded his words, “I think it’s reasonably expensive and it’s deserved and you can still make money on the merchandise and other things. So it’s an excuse for laziness to don’t use a real artist, I think, I think A.I. is cool and it can be helpful, but it has to be used with your brain.”
Jimmy Page also recently expressed concerns about AI in music. “Today, as artificial intelligence seeks to mimic and monetise creativity, we stand at a crossroads,” the guitarist stated. “AI-generated art and music, synthesised from existing human works, lack the visceral essence that comes from lived experience.”
“The ethical implications are profound. AI scrapes the vast tapestry of human creativity to generate content without consent, attribution, or compensation. This is not innovation. It’s exploitation,” Page added.
Michael Sweet also thinks art should be made by humans, not computers. He believes that the human touch is fading, and it’s troubling that people can now create art by typing a few words.
