PHIL DEMMEL Isn’t Interested In Using A.I. To Create Music: ‘Music Should Be A Natural, Genuine Birth To Something’ [Video]

In a new interview with Metallerium, former MACHINE HEAD and VIO-LENCE and current KERRY KING guitarist Phil Demmel was asked for his opinion about the role of artificial intelligence (A.I.) in creative industries, including music and art. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Yeah, that’s a hard one. Music-wise, I don’t see me using it for music, and I think that music should be a natural, genuine birth to something. I mean, yeah, you can have your outside influences, but those are all part of you and part of coming through you, not going, ‘Oh, I’m just gonna click up this and bring up this. I need a blah blah blah.’ For art, that’s a tricky one for me. I think anything artificial like that, as far as you’re creating something, I think it’s kind of cheating. I’m not against it, because it happens all the time. I mean, bands rip off other bands all the …