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Roger Daltrey warns AI could ‘destroy’ music business
MSN ^ | March 13, 2024 | Bang Showbiz UK

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: ai; rogerdaltrey; thewho
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To: dfwgator

Thanks! :)


21 posted on 03/15/2024 8:36:55 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: DoodleBob

The Who. Putting out hits since 1965. Amazing.


22 posted on 03/15/2024 8:43:49 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Long Jon No Silver
AI is machine. It has no soul.

AI is an always-wrong sometimes-useful mathematical model that can live forever, just like the number 13 for example, so doesn't really need a soul. But a few numbers *seem* to have souls.

From a law perspective, a corporation is considered a legal person. It won't be long before an AI machine will have the same rights and responsibilities.

We live in interesting times.

23 posted on 03/15/2024 8:51:44 PM PDT by Reeses
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To: BobL
> ...he was the only rock musician from the 70s who managed to avoid the drug scene...

Angus Young of AC/DC is famous for being a teetotaler -- neither alcohol nor drugs, ever in his career. AC/DC started in 1973 so they're arguably "from the 70's" though they got going later than the Who by a decade.

24 posted on 03/15/2024 8:51:48 PM PDT by dayglored (Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords! Arthur Pendragon in 2024)
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To: dayglored

That’s fair, I was just having some ‘fun’ with them, given all their issues!


25 posted on 03/15/2024 9:00:45 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Nobody can touch them live around 1970, just watch their Isle of Wight show. My favorite version of “Young Man Blues”, even better than the one on Live at Leeds.


26 posted on 03/15/2024 9:04:22 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: aynrandfreak

“Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss...”

Prophetic.


27 posted on 03/15/2024 9:15:48 PM PDT by Texas resident (Biden=Obama=Jarrett=Soros)
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To: Responsibility2nd
The Who. Putting out hits since 1965. Amazing.

The Who only had one top 10 song during their lifework, "I Can See for Miles," way back in 1967. For decades, Pete Townsend was unhappy his songs could never crack the charts.

28 posted on 03/15/2024 9:23:51 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: DoodleBob

AI has potential to destroy many businesses.

Using AI to absorb/study all patterns of demand, AI can “decide” what is, and what is not, “viable” or “sustainable” or whatever the owner-controller of AI wishes.

For example, if AI “decides” that QLXQYLZ Grocery Chain is THE best investment, funds for the competitors may vanish.

IOW, AI is naturally monopolistic.


29 posted on 03/15/2024 9:24:00 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: dfwgator

Let me ask if you’re familiar with;
“The Who at Kilburn:1977”-——?
They Filmed it for ‘The Kids Alright’
Movie which I’ve not seen.
Been a Fan since ‘Who’s Next’ and this
‘KILBURN’ video is The Most Awsome !!!
Keith’s last I think but His Best.
.
I’ve got 3 versions of TOMMY,
Can’t find Quadrophenia.


30 posted on 03/15/2024 9:35:49 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: dfwgator

Young man Blues.....?
Perhaps
Summertime Blues...
That’s on KILBURN too.
.
Yup They Kill It!


31 posted on 03/15/2024 9:39:46 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: DoodleBob

Roger must have been listing to that AI piece with new words for The Sound of Silence....


32 posted on 03/15/2024 10:18:18 PM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

S’ploded lol. Reminds me of Ricky Ricardo.


33 posted on 03/15/2024 10:28:48 PM PDT by toddausauras (Trump Lake 2024....Go down swinging!)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

He should be grateful that they were not a top 10 pop band. As it were, The Who sold over 100 million songs. I think I would be happy with that.


34 posted on 03/15/2024 11:07:32 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: DoodleBob

There are only 6 media companies that control 90% of what we see and hear. They are the ones destroying tv, movies and music with blandness, bad writing, now DEI and quotas.
Not AI. AI will enable anyone to create better shows as they can write a show and use AI to create the sets and fill in the scenes with generated characters instead of using green screens.


35 posted on 03/15/2024 11:13:56 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: DoodleBob

AI can’t possibly go lower than a huge amount of what appears on top forty. What I hear on top forty is so simple and uninspired that I couldn’t t parody it. That is not hyperbole. I hear this stuff because my son likes it. There are real singers and songwriters on top forty but there ain’t a lot of them. Most of the stuff a kid thirty years ago could do in his bedroom. He’d call it a demo and put it out with the understanding that if someone wanted to produce it they could arrange it and flesh it out.


36 posted on 03/16/2024 5:10:39 AM PDT by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

“The Who only had one top 10 song during their lifework, “I Can See for Miles,””

IIRC, “Squeeze Box”, arguably their worst single, hit #1 and was the only song of theirs to do that. But so many others deserved it.


37 posted on 03/16/2024 8:37:19 AM PDT by gymbeau (I refuse to be anonymous. I am THEnonymous.)
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To: Big Red Badger

Let me ask if you’re familiar with;
“The Who at Kilburn:1977”-——?

Oh yeah, I’ve probably watched “The Kids Are Alright” about 20 times.


38 posted on 03/16/2024 8:40:41 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: gymbeau
“The Who only had one top 10 song during their lifework, “I Can See for Miles,””

Pete was so disappointed it only went to #9, that he decided that he wouldn't worry about writing hit singles anymore, and decided to do a Rock Opera instead.

39 posted on 03/16/2024 8:41:58 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: gymbeau
IIRC, “Squeeze Box”, arguably their worst single, hit #1 and was the only song of theirs to do that. But so many others deserved it.

"Slip Kid" from the same album, is probably my favorite Who song.

40 posted on 03/16/2024 8:42:41 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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