Born Shaun Crahan, Slipknot’s Clown has defended the use of AI in music.
“Employing AI 190 per cent” and called it “a professor in my pocket who only wants to do what I ask it”, the 56-year-old percussionist told gaming magazine The Escapist “I’ve been using AI my whole life,” and claimed he has “thousands and thousands” of poems that he is adapting through the use of Artificial Intelligence.
Explaining how he uses the technology, the iconic rocker said “Here are my words. Don’t change them. Don’t alter them. But show me some different ways to sing it.”
Adding that he’d prefer using AI rather than pay a producer “$150,000” to produce unsatisfactory results, the Slipknot band member said:
“What’s the difference between me pulling out my pocket producer… or me trying to get a famous producer that might not even work with me and could potentially cost me $150,000… who will only give me one or two ways – I’m not mentioning any names!”
In a 2023 interview with Kerrang!, Slipknot bandmate Corey Taylor did not agree with Clown’s positive thoughts about AI, stating “People keep going, ‘Oh, isn’t it cool?’ I’m like, no, it’s not cool. What are you, out of your mind? What? Suddenly now we have no talent? The only thing that we’re gonna get that sounds cool and new is from something that doesn’t even exist? S**** you, man!”
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Author: Al Dente
Photo: Morten Jensen