During an interview with Keefy from Ghost Cult magazine, Andrea Ferro of LACUNA COIL shared his thoughts on AI-generated music and artwork.
“I think technology, as usual, is not good or bad. It depends the way you use it,” Andrea said (as transcribed by Blabbermouth). “If it’s an extra tool to make your life easier and faster, that’s okay. But if it has to substitute the creativity of a person, that I don’t like personally. I prefer to use human creativity because humans are great because they make mistakes, and from a mistake, usually that’s where great things happen.
“Whatever you do — you write a book, you write a song, you write a movie — when you f**k up or you make a mistake, and you can go there and see and realize what’s special, how special it becomes with the mistakes, that’s where you find a new way. You learn something new, you create something new and unique because you never would have thought about it in the correct way.
“So I think that can’t be replaced by machine, at least not yet,” he continued. “And so I think human touch is very important. And there’s no need to use A.I. [art for album covers]. If you find the right artist, it’s not even that expensive. I think it’s reasonably expensive and it’s deserved and you can still make money on the merchandise and other things. So it’s an excuse for laziness to don’t use a real artist, I think, I think A.I. is cool and it can be helpful, but it has to be used with your brain.”
LACUNA COIL‘s latest album, Sleepless Empire, was released on February 14th via Century Media. You can read out review for the album here.
Source: metaladdicts.com
