James Blunt “humiliated” by “generic” AI versions of his lyrics
James Blunt has opened up about experimenting with AI (artificial intelligence) lyrics and being “humiliated” by the results.On the March 19 episode of the I Never Thought It Would Happen podcast with host Chris Difford, the pair spoke about the rise of AI and how younger musicians are turning to software to generate lyrics for them.Blunt went on to reveal that he too had experimented with AI to see if it could create lyrics accurately in his style, but was “humiliated” by the results that he received. Blunt told Difford: “Every single one of us must have, having heard of [AI], typed in and then written ‘Give me a first based on this, in the style of, in my case, a James Blunt lyric’”.“The truth is, either AI comes up with something very, very generic or my lyrics are just absolutely mundane.”“So AI has totally humiliated me whenever I’ve gone and asked it to impersonate myself.