Jean-Michel Jarre has attacked the conservatism of the music and film industries over AI and urged them to embrace the technology instead of being fearful and “very anti-AI”.
Says the artist who condemned mp3 for it’s use in copying music.
This new wave of pro-AI musicians, actors, and etc must have gotten a big ol bribe recently. As a musician/actor myself, I can say a big ol, “Fuck off.”
Yeah it’s easy to say that when you’re a RICH SUCCESSFUL ARTIST.
Successful? I know that he used to be huge in the 80s and early 90s, but after that? I am slightly surprised that he is still getting some attention in the media.
Then again ‘hurr-durr AI hurr-durr’.
I mean just because he’s not particularly successful ANYMORE doesn’t take away his past success, or name recognition as one of the best soundtrack artists of all time, he’s more of an artist’s artist I suppose, he’s very influential in synthesizer circles for instance as he is quite prolific in his gear and experimentation. He’s definitely always been a bit of an asshole though, when The Orb wanted to remix Oxygene in the 90s he would not let them, so they produced the song Toxygene instead.
A crowd of 100,000 or so in 2024 seems pretty successful to me. I mean sure it doesn’t match 3.5 million from 1997, but 100,000 isn’t exactly chump change in an audience size.
Ah, fuck.
Well, it was a good run, but now I know never to listen to any J-M J music from after Equinoxe Infinity.
Looks like the guardian has embraced AI judging by that photo.
Huh? Thats just very oversaturated but an otherwise normal photograph.
Dude isn’t wrong. The principal issues with AI are social, not technological, or even artistic.
Even without the social issues (some of which aren’t really solvable), there are still the matters of the lack of control and predictability, qualities that make it very valuable to fakers, but pretty much worthless to serious artists.
