Los Angeles, March 8 Singer-songwriter SZA has expressed her concerns about the rise of AI in music. She feels that she is "at war" due to the increasing presence of AI in the music industry.
According to ‘Female First UK’, the singer believes that the technology is causing particular problems for Black artists.
She is concerned about the use of artificial intelligence to create songs and is "really offended" by the sound of certain tracks that have been produced using AI.
She told i-D magazine, “I feel like I’m at war because of AI. It’s happening disproportionately with Black music. Why am I hearing AI covers of Olivia Dean, when Olivia Dean just came out? She can’t even collect the streams. I’m also really offended by the type of Black music that’s coming out of AI. It’s weird, stereotypical struggle music”.
“I’m not up against the pop girls. I’m not up against the R and B girls. I’m up against anti-intellectualism and doing things easy. The type of blend of information my human experience provides, AI can’t even be prompted to f* with. I want to just let this angst drive me into bizarre directions”, she added.
According to ‘Female First UK’, the 36-year-old singer is worried about how "fractured and fragmented" society has become.
She said, “I feel aggressively Black right now. It’s so scary to realise that we’re so deeply unprepared and fractured and fragmented as a society. The veil is down and anything is happening. We aren’t empowered by a sense of community and solidarity. We don’t have it”.
Last summer, SZA criticised users of AI technology for being "codependent on a machine" and urged fans to “please Google how much energy and pollution it takes to run AI”.