Sting is not a fan of Artificial Intelligence when it comes to songwriting.
He tells the BBC, “The building blocks of music belong to us, to human beings. That’s going to be a battle we all have to fight in the next couple of years: Defending our human capital against AI.”
And he’s also not fond of using it to mimic voices to create different versions of songs. “It’s similar to the way I watch a movie with CGI (Computer Generated Imagery). It doesn’t impress me at all. I get immediately bored when I see a computer-generated image. I imagine I will feel the same way about AI making music…
“Maybe for electronic dance music, it works. But for songs, you know, expressing emotions, I don’t think I will be moved by it.”
Though numerous artists have had their voices altered to fit songs by other artists, a search of YouTube only offers up an AI Sting doing “Ain’t No Sunshine” by Bill Withers.
But some of his songs have been altered including, “Fields of Gold” “sung” by John Lennon, Mariah Carey, and Morrissey and Lana Del Ray, as well as Harry Styles “doing” “Shape of My Heart.”
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