Boy George prefers writing lyrics with AI to getting into heated debates with human collaborators.
The 64-year-old ’80s music icon – whose biggest hits include Culture Club’s Karma Chameleon and Do You Really Want to Hurt Me – has admitted to using ChatGPT to pen lyrics.
Appearing on Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place podcast, he said: “You’re not working with anyone else.
“You don’t have to worry even for two seconds about what they think. I’m a top-line writer, so I write top-line melodies. All the people I work with send me tracks, and I’ll just sit with them, and I’ll just play it and play it.”
Further sharing an insight into how he uses the AI chatbot, he went on: “I have fantastic conversations with ChatGPT.
“And I’ll say: ‘Oh, those lyrics are c***. That’s not what I would say.’ You know what I mean? But, actually, you can train it.”
On the other side of the AI debate, SZA recently admitted she feels like she is “at war” because of the rise of AI in music, and she feels the technology is causing particular problems for Black artists.
The Save the Day singer is “really offended” by the sound of certain tracks that have been produced using AI.
She told i-D magazine: “I feel like I’m at war because of AI.
“It’s happening disproportionately with Black music.
“Why am I hearing AI covers of Olivia Dean, when Olivia Dean just came the f***out? She can’t even collect the streams.
“I’m also really offended by the type of Black music that’s coming out of AI. Weird, stereotypical struggle music.
“I’m not up against the pop girls. I’m not up against the R and B girls. I’m up against anti-intellectualism and doing things easy. The type of blend of information my human experience provides, AI can’t even be prompted to f*** with. I want to just let this angst drive me into bizarre directions.”