Metal, Hardcore, Indie, Rock
In a recent interview with Spain’s El Jevilongo reported by blabbermouth.net, vocalist Cristina Scabbia of the Italian goth metal band Lacuna Coil addressed a contemporary debate regarding the utilization of artificial intelligence (A.I.) music generators. She discussed the application of A.I. algorithms and machine learning (M.L.) models in the composition of melodies, harmonies, and rhymes.
I hate music made with A.I. I understand that A.I. is the way because I can deny the progress. I understand that we are a little pissed, especially creative people, especially artists and painters and people who create posters for shows, all the graphic designers are really pissed, photographers and also singers and musicians because I think for music, it should start from platforms. I understand the business point, but platforms like Spotify, at least they should say no to A.I. artists because that’s not real music. I mean, they are [streaming] music from a real artist already. They should be the ones to say, like, ‘We don’t accept A.I. musicians.’ And also people should be aware that those are just creations from computers with no souls in it. Some people don’t even realize it. I’ve seen many, many videos of people just singing over these bands that are not even existing.
Following the interviewer’s remark that “creativity is akin to a muscle” and that “if you do not exercise it, you risk losing it,” Cristina responded accordingly.
Well, I don’t think it’s a problem for whoever is using it, creating music, because I think that they’re not really interested in music and they just do it for the business. Because if you’re a real musician, you would take your time to write your music and maybe use the help of electronic things to improve your creativity or to make it faster, but A.I., it’s something like in which you’re not doing anything, pretty much. I mean, I don’t understand why they call themselves artists, because you can’t really be an artist just like typing, ‘Make a song that sounds like Lacuna Coil.’ That’s not creating something; that’s just like cheating big time.
