Metal Anarchy

Core Memory recently tasked Kid Rock with rating an AI-generated country song. During the segment, he also shared his thoughts on the technology. The singer says if someone created a track modeled after him and managed to nail it, he would “give [them] a piece of it.”

Rock said the following:

“The songwriters I I have, you know, a special place in my heart for them. Like, I don’t know how it works out for them. Like, there might have to be some legislation there or whatnot. And maybe for artists, too. I’m not against it, but I don’t think we need to be unreasonable about something we can’t stop.

I mean, my attitude personally is, like, if a hundred thousand people want to be out there writing songs with my intellectual property, whatever, my voice — go for it. I hope somebody nails one. If you nail one, I’ll give you a piece of it. Because I get to go sing that live and we make the majority of our money live at the gate.

Now what’s going to happen is the other half of the country that are writing songs, like you know, Kid Rock wants to blow Joe Biden, you know, stuff like that. And I’ll laugh at that too, there will probably be some funny stuff there.”

He also added:

“[AI is] another tool. You can pound in a nail with a rock if you want. Go for it. Or you can get a nail gun. …Technology, you’re not going to stop it. So let’s figure out how to use it. Make life better. There’s going to be some adjustments. Yeah, industries are going to lose some workers and stuff, but they’ll come back in other spaces somewhere. It’s always worked out throughout time.”

[via The PRP]