Robbie Williams songwriter Guy Chambers hits out at AI in the music industry

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Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue, has said that the presence of advancing artificial intelligence technology in the music industry is “terrifying”.The songwriter, who is best known for collaborating with Williams over the last two decades, expressed concern that AI technology has the potential to replace songwriters during a talk for music and entertainment industry apprentices at the Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies in Nottingham.“I think we may get to a stage in the future where an album will need to have a badge saying ‘this is an all-human record’,” he said. [via The Guardian]“From what I’ve seen of AI, the acceleration is pretty terrifying, in terms of what it can do and how it could replace songwriters.“Any person could put into an AI programme something like ‘I want a song 100 BPM that sounds like a cross between ABBA and Arctic Monkeys’.

And some music will be created and it will be pretty good.“Or someone might say: ‘Can you also write me a lyric that’s a funny take on fast food’ and a pretty good lyric will come out.

This is just going to get better and better as AI gets more and more intelligent.”He continued: “We now use so much software that’s probably being helped by AI, it would be quite hard to do a completely organic analogue record these days.

Of course, there are also benefits to this, and I think there will be incredible tie-ins with AI that we can’t even imagine now.