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- Date Published
- 15 May 2026
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- Australian
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- 15 May 2026, 02:00 pm
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In an "update" posted to Instagram this week, the Bleachers frontman blasted AI music creators as "godless w--res". "What we do has become an ancient ritual," he wrote in the letter. "You don't have to write music, you don't have to record it and you don't have to bring out the band and play it. And yet for us, the idea of optimizing what we do is a complete miss of the entire point of what compels us in the first place.”
Summary
Musician Jack Antonoff argues that substituting human efforts with AI tools in music production misses the fundamental purpose of artistic expression, which he describes as an 'ancient ritual.' These remarks highlight growing cultural friction between traditional creative processes and the optimization capabilities of generative AI models. While focusing on the aesthetic and soulful value of human-made art, the critique touches on broader concerns regarding the displacement of human agency by autonomous systems. However, the discourse remains centered on entertainment and copyright ethics rather than catastrophic safety or existential risks.