Daniel Bedingfield is convinced that the future of music-making belongs to artificial intelligence. He has created an app called Hooks, which marries songs with AI videos, and also produced a brand-new album featuring AI-generated songs. —Bedingfield thinks artists should embrace AI.
He told the Guardian, “AI is here forever now. And so I think that there will be two paths: there’ll be the neo-Luddite path, and then there’ll be everyone else, most of the planet, who thinks the music’s really good and enjoys it.
Daniel Bedingfield Said: ‘I Want To Empower A Six- Year Old To Make A Masterpiece
“It will be possible to continue without AI. But the question will be, why would you?
“Why fight it when you can have a whole gospel choir singing your chorus in two days’ time?”
Bedingfield imagines AI allowing children to create “masterpieces” and wishes he had access to that kind of technology in his youth.
“I want to empower a six-year-old to make a masterpiece. I could sing really well when I was six; I feel that my voice was as good at nine as it is now. I would have loved the chance to have made an album back then, without having to spend decades learning to play the instruments. That was the hard part, the brutal part,” he shared.
However, he feels that growth in AI in music could harm the industry, more so for musicians.
“Right now I’m grieving in my heart for 10,000 musicians, the pain that’s coming in the next 10 years, the depression, the homelessness. I think that’s coming,” he said.
Bedingfield ended with this warning: “We have to adapt or die”.
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