Sting Weighs In on Artificial Intelligence: Battle Between AI vs Human

Artificial Intelligence has recently taken over the social media sphere in the past few months and years. Most recently, the conversation about AI in music has raised the eyebrows of people in the music industry and has continued to surprise many music fans.

YouTube and TikTok have been full of videos and clips of artists singing covers of songs that did not actually happen in real life. Streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music have heightened their security against AI platforms using music available online as training grounds for their new and ever-evolving programs.

Most recently, The Police vocalist Sting has weighed down on the issue of AI taking over one of the most primal aspects of the music industry - songwriting.

Sting Believes AI vs Human Battle in Music Coming Soon

Speaking to BBC about the topic, Sting has been candid in his statements.

"The building blocks of music belong to us, to human beings," he told the publication. "That's going to be a battle we all have to fight in the next couple of years: Defending our human capital against AI,"

In the past months, David Guetta added Eminem's voice to one of his tracks with the help of AI. An AI-generated duet between The Weeknd and Drake even happened.

AI-generated songs are also sprawling on social media, which the music icon likened to a CGI movie.

"It's similar to the way I watch a movie with CGI. It doesn't impress me at all," he admitted. "I get immediately bored when I see a computer-generated image. I imagine I will feel the same way about AI making music.

Sting is behind one of the most successful singles of all time. He wrote the song "Every Breath You Take" in 1982 after a breakup with Francess Tomelthy. To date, the song is still one of the most loved tracks of all time.

According to Prince, the electronic music genre might be down on AI-generated songs, but for emotive and expressive songs - nothing can beat human emotion.

Debates on the legality of AI and its intersection with copyright and other legal facets continue to be questioned as frameworks in policing such works have yet to be drafted and enacted.

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