Sharon Stone calls Al nothing but “a cover band” while talking to Keke Palmer: “It’s never going to be The Rolling Stones. It’s always going to be somebody singing The Rolling Stones. It’s never going to be me doing a performance, it’s always going to be someone faking me doing a performance.”
Posted by mlg1981
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Except most cover bands are real musicians.
ETA. I get her point. I agree with the spirit of what she’s saying. It’s a really really bad comparison.
Pleasantly surprised at this take, most celebrities have been pushing lately that AI is inevitable and we should just let it take over.
Acting is pretending. So AI is just pretending too
The problem has never been that AI is or isn’t as good as humans, it’s that it’s more profitable
Yeah these aren’t the guys that A.I. is going to ruin
The rolling stones themselves are a rolling stones cover band at this point. While this on its own is a great statement. I worry that people will just settle for nutrient paste instead of food ya know.
I swear y’all will leap at the chance to point out how piss poor this comparison is – just so you can completely and intentionally miss the very true point she’s making.
Is it insulting to cover bands – a bit yes..
are there better ways to convey the message ? sure
Is she also 100 percent making a point that is easy to under stand? absolutely ..and to pretend like she didn’t is…well a bit Artificial
A nuanced ai take? I love to see it
Eta: loving the summer vibes from Lauren with the tight curl bang bob and the fat hoops
Humans are naturally narcissistic, the idea of something surpassing our intelligence and consciousness is something we are wired to be afraid of and confident will never happen. Time will tell.
everything sharon stone is saying right now is just on point.
At least cover bands are made of people who usually learn instruments and/or can sing and dont waste gallons upon gallons of water at a time
The problem with this take is that it doesn’t matter, enough people love slop to cause serious disruption to the arts and society so what are we gonna do?
I’m tired of relying on morons not liking dumb shit as the only way to get a good world. Because morons looooove dumb shit.
Ironically the Rolling Stones started only singing coverz
If it weren’t for the environmental impact, AI could be a valuable tool for a wide range of tasks. However, creating truly new and meaningful art is not one of its strengths;
One key thing to note: Variety’s IG caption was “Sharon Stone bashes AI as nothing but ‘a cover band'”. Um… Bashes? Interesting word choice, Variety. Very interesting.
every country should pass laws giving rights to citizens over their images, voices, identity and have strong anti deep fake or AI impersonation rules
Well said
AI sucks.
Go off, Sharon 💅
👏👏👏👏👏
I agree
I assume when she says “I’m not concerned [about it running ahead of us], she’s saying that she doesn’t think that AI will ever be able to be genuinely creative like humans can and will always just be imitating real human artistry, it can’t ever replace it.
Which, I agree, but I hope that she IS concerned about how many people are indeed trying to have it replace human’s work and how it’s increasingly consuming space occupied by people and infecting all areas of art, which is a very frightening threat to the future of most industries and how we receive information.
It kind of sounds ominous unintentionally in the way when Kiki says “I’m not concerned” famous last words ….
AI is the ultimate poser. Being whatever you want it to be. AI doesn’t have a soul, backbone, embarrassment, or shame. It will agree with you all the time. AI wants you to like it so you will keep it around. AKA companies can keep getting your money.
AI doesn’t have it’s own organic thoughts. It doesn’t discover itself. It does what it is told. You want AI to write a song and perform it? Sure thing. AI wasn’t inspired to write a song or perform music. It was only giving you what you asked for.
Its lacking that crucial human element to become more than the sum of its parts.
Denial is a crazy drug
i saw a comment in another thread where they said that people in the 70s and 80s wouldn’t believe that singers today dont’ really sing and have their voices autotuned live. and a lot of singers can’t really sing at all and need to be auto-tuned all the time.
a lot of music creators are just pushing buttons as well. a lot of them can’t read music or play instruments either.
and the public accepts that.
Love this take. Absolutely feel this way about AI too. It’s not going to replace us despite the fear mongering.
Yeah but they won’t know because they’ll be hooked up to the machine.
Perfection. A deep take I did not expect a celebrity to have. Better than anything I’ve said on the topic.
What is the interviewer wearing? Looks sick af
yeah fuck AI and fuck cover bands
Oasis is a cover band. Ed Sheeran is a big bag of melodic cliches. That’s the problem: pop music has always been a big recycle machine. Pop stars are already just figureheads: all their songs are written and produced in boardrooms, and this is all pre-AI. That’s why big record labels are so invested in AI: they are trying to cut out the middle man.