Radiohead’s Thom Yorke says artificial intelligence does nothing more than “steal” from original human artistic work.
Radiohead singer Thom Yorke has revealed his stance and concern about AI
The 56-year-old songwriter – who has just released his first full-length electronic album ‘Tall Tales’, a collaboration with Mark Pritchard – is against the onslaught of AI in the music business and other creative industries.
Thom insists the technology is stealing musicians’ ideas with no financial reimbursement.
Speaking to Electronic Sound magazine, Thom said: “As far as I can tell in music and art and all creative industries, Al is so far only able to ‘create’ variations on genuine human artistic expression, and those are obvious. Is Al capable of genuine original creative thought? I have yet to see that. It analyses and steals and builds iterations without acknowledging the original human work it analysed. It creates pallid facsimiles, which is useful in the same way auto-accompaniment is useful, or a screensaver of a beautiful natural landscape in a billionaire’s bunker is.
“But the economic structure is morally wrong … the human work used by AI to fake its creativity is not being acknowledged. Writers are not paid. It’s a weird kind of wanky, tech-bro nightmare future, and it seems this is what the tech industry does best. A devaluing of the rest of humanity, other than themselves, hidden behind tech. In the US right now, we are witnessing this spilling over into politics.
“We are. in modern parlance. ‘creatives. which is a term I find deeply offensive because it arrived around the time that art morphed into ‘content’ for devices.”
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