James Blunt Left ‘Humiliated’ by AI’s Take on His Lyrics
According to James, ‘You’re Beautiful’ was based on a true story about a man who accepts that his love for another woman will never be reciprocated.
James Blunt Left ‘Humiliated’ by AI’s Take on His Lyrics: As a curiosity, the ‘You’re Beautiful’ hitmaker experimented with artificial intelligence but was mortified by the “generic” way it produced lyrics in his own style.
James Blunt Left ‘Humiliated’ by AI’s Take on His Lyrics:
He told the ‘I Never Thought It Would Happen’ podcast: “Every single one of us must have, having heard of [AI], typed in and then written ‘Give me a verse based on this, in the style of, in my case, a James Blunt lyric’.
“The truth is, either AI comes up with something very, very generic or my lyrics are just mundane.
“So AI has totally humiliated me whenever I’ve gone and asked it to impersonate myself. It’s taught me, if anything, not to use AI and [I] must do better.”
The self-deprecating James weighed in on the importance of seeing people’s “flaws” and “mistakes” in music to give songs “character”.
“The thing about songwriting and music generally is, it is your flaws and your failings and your mistakes which make it have character,” he said.
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“Character is something that is not formulaic or generic and even if I have written something before and I say ‘Let me write it in the style of me again,’ it will be boring to myself, I need to go out and test myself and push myself to do something different.
“And some of those things I would make by mistake and I don’t think AI can do that yet. I don’t think it can bring in true character flaws and mistakes at this stage.”
According to James, ‘You’re Beautiful’ was based on a true story about a man who accepts that his love for another woman will never be reciprocated.
He told the Metro newspaper’s Rush Hour Crush column: “It’s a true story. She was an ex. She was with her new boyfriend – I didn’t know that he existed. But we walked past each other, we caught each other’s eye.”
He added: “We lived a lifetime in that moment but I didn’t do anything about it. I just went home, wrote a song about it, and got a house out of it – the whole thing. So, I’m happy for them.”
AI world is changing rapidly, first was generative and voice AI being used in various fields where in place of humans, AI is being used and now James Blunt Left ‘Humiliated’ by AI’s Take on His Lyrics. Reports say that we might see a great change in the technology world soon.