French musician’s comments are in stark contrast to fears expressed by artists such as Elton John and Dua Lipa
Jean-Michel Jarre has attacked the conservatism of the music and film industries over AI and urged them to embrace the technology instead of being fearful and “very anti-AI”.
Jarre, one of the pioneers of electronic music in the 1970s, said while the existing creative industries were “freaking out” over the technology, artists would use AI “to create the cinema of tomorrow, the hip-hop of tomorrow, the techno of tomorrow, the rock’n’roll of tomorrow”.
AI’s power to generate images and sounds would not kill talent, but should be embraced as the pioneers of the film industry embraced the moving image and then sound in the early 20th century, he said.
The French musician’s comments were in stark contrast to deep anxieties about AI that have been expressed by other leading musicians including Elton John and Dua Lipa – in particular about models being trained on copyrighted material without clearance or compensation.
