Corey Taylor On AI: Why Should You Worry About The Machine That Makes The Beatles Song?

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JAKARTA - Slipknot vocalist Corey Taylor is again involved in a debate about people using artificial intelligence (AI) to compose fake songs and recreate the artist's voice.

The 50-year-old singer, who spent the last few months promoting her second solo album, CMF2, made clear her stance during an interview with Australia's Spotlight Report.

"It's interesting, guys. It looks like that's what everyone is talking about right now," Taylor said.

"Of course, I don't like to think about the fact that there is a program that can imitate anything, because we've been having trouble with the reality lately. Now we're creating or inciting or encouraging this that can make us don't know what reality is," he continued.

"And I think instead of concentrating on that, we need to concentrate on real things and concentrate on relationships that we need to restore with others when it comes to belief or conspiracy or hatred or violence."

"I mean, we have to concentrate on that rather than worry about machines that can make Beatles songs (Now and Then, ed). That's where our energy should focus and reduce to the technology that may or may not tear up the fabric."

Taylor previously discussed his hatred of AI during an interview in May with Kerrang's Loz Guest! Radio.

"To be honest, I don't care about that nonsense, my friend. I don't know what people want to prove. Are they trying to prove that computers can do the same good as humans? Because if so, then what's the point? This is a worse example of technology taking over talent than what I've been talking about over the years with Pro Tools and tuning and using the same sound... And people keep saying, 'Oh, isn't that cool?'."