Posted on 03/15/2024 7:36:45 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Roger Daltrey fears AI has the power to “destroy” the music industry.
The Who frontman, 80, who has already said he believes smartphones and TV are “brainwashing” and killing humanity, added he is reassured artificially intelligent bots don’t have our “empathy”.
He told broadcaster Shaun Keaveny, 51, on the ‘Shaun Keaveny’s Daily Grind’ podcast: “The one thing I totally believe AI will never have, and it will be its downfall – it will never have empathy.
“It’s going to destroy the music industry if we're not careful… music is a different language, and we shouldn’t let AI control that.
“That will always contain empathy, and AI can’t do that. I won’t ever believe, if AI can ever do empathy, then we are (done for.)”
Roger has previously warned: “Once AI controls the Internet, we’ll be in trouble. People addicted to their iPhones will be brainwashed.”
He was also quoted in the Daily Star saying he is terrified armies of “robots” will rampage through the world like in James Cameron’s ‘Terminator’ films.
The ‘My Generation’ singer added: “There’s enough people looking at their iPhone for eight hours a day, you don’t need machines to kill them.
“You turn them round another way.”
Roger also claimed sitting is the “new cancer” and urged humanity to stop watching TV as he believes it “sucks up your life”.
He added: “I watch people losing their lives down this thing a phone.
“Life isn’t looking down – it’s about looking up.”
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Most musicians have gotten on board the communist train so to hell with them. I hope they all go broke and end up giving handies for Pennies in Denny’s parking lots. 95% of them are pure scum.
If the music business were destroyed, there would still be music and jobs for musicians.
I thought Auto-Tune had already done that, at least for the singing.
Elon Musk posted on Twitter that AI could destroy humanity so it’s not just musicians.
Watch the late scenes from the movie Tommy. Daltry climbs to the top of a mountain on large boulders like he’s walking to his car in the driveway - I doubt he even noticed it was nearly vertical.
I later heard that he was the only rock musician from the 70s who managed to avoid the drug scene...
Is there any Good News?
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Roger says “Look-Up,Look-Up!”
He forgot the;
‘Whence Comes Your Salvation!’
There really is no music business. It’s become so corporatized that it has zero to do with art at this point.
We won’t get fooled again!
Roger Daltrey is 80?!?!
Dang.
I have been in love with Roger Daltrey since I was a teen. Where do I sign up?
Oh, I don’t care about his VIEWS on anything, one way or another. I’d just like to meet him. ;)
Yeah. For kids today and their cell phones ‘It’s only teenage wasteland’.
Taylor Swift is proof of that. ;)
It may be too late. What the younger generation calls “music” isn’t music. Daltry was part of the British Invasion and Classic Rock. They don’t write ‘em like that anymore.
True! No warmth anymore in modern music.
They’ll still be listening to The Who a hundred years from now.
Nobody will be listening to any of the dreck being produced today.
‘Rogery Daltry: Best Bits,’ Had it on cassette and played it in my old Chevy until it exploded, as all cassettes eventually did. :(
Of course, that was AFTER all of my ‘Who’ cassettes ‘sploded, LOL! :)
His autobiography is a good read.
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