Keith Richards blasts people who make music using AI: “Music could do a lot better than just trying to copy itself”
Few topics have had so much chatter in the past couple of years as AI. Artificial intelligence is now everywhere, with helpful use cases like debugging code, and not-so-helpful use cases like filling our social media feeds with slop.
As with any new technology, sometimes its use is appropriate, sometimes not. Take the Rolling Stones, for example. The group – now all in their 80s, with the exception of Ronnie Wood, who is 79 – harnessed the power of AI to make de-aged versions of themselves for the music video for In the Stars, from their latest album Foreign Tongues.
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“They’re not fake people in a fake room; they’re all in a room, really playing together,” Mick Jagger says in a new interview with Billboard. “The musicians are real musicians that look a bit like the Rolling Stones in 1968. The only thing was the faces.
“They worked on mine first, and it kind of looked like me, but not really – like one of my children when they were 23 or something. And then I saw Ronnie, and I said to the people working on it, ‘It looks more like Jeff Beck.’ So they had to do a bit of extra work.”
“That’s our brushing with AI,” adds Keith Richards. “I said, ‘Very nice. I wish I looked like that now.’ But maybe that’s what they’re good for – music videos. Put it in its proper place.”
As for AI when it comes to the actual music, Richards and Jagger are less enthusiastic.
“My thoughts are: I’d rather hear something original,” says Keith. “Music could do a lot better than just trying to copy itself. After all, it’s pretty simple stuff – this is not Beethoven or Bach, and I’ve no doubt AI can do that, but so what? We want new input.
“We don’t want more and more copying and synthesizing. At least that’s my point of view. Music is to play around with. Surely there’s enough originality without having to copy nursery rhymes.”
Likewise, Jagger encourages those looking to use AI as a tool to write music to “have your own input and your own thoughts”.
“I don’t want to be imitated by AI, vocally and instrumentally, and the band doesn’t. I don’t want people just putting stuff out there that can sound exactly like the Rolling Stones – I think that’s obviously wrong. If someone wants to make music by AI, go ahead, but it has to be original.”
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