It’s unlikely that the remaining members of Pink Floyd will get back together anytime soon, especially in light of the recent verbal spat between Roger Waters and David Gilmour’s wife, Polly Samson. Nick Mason, though, had some intriguing ideas about how artificial intelligence may help Pink Floyd.
In a recent interview with the UK’s Mirror, Mason mentioned this. The drummer implies that Pink Floyd’s music was composed by AI, as though Waters had never left the group.
“It would be fascinating to see what AI could do with new music,” added Mason. “.. The best course of action would be to create an AI scenario in which David and Roger reconcile.
The notion that Gilmour and Waters can only reunite via artificial intelligence is hilarious, heartwarming, incredibly fascinating, and a little unsettling. A broad coalition of musicians, including Pearl Jam and Jon Bon Jovi, called on “AI developers, technology companies, platforms, and digital music services to cease the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to infringe upon and devalue the rights of human artists” in an open letter published on Medium back in April.
“Believe without doubt:
We think AI has tremendous potential to advance human creativity and in a way that enables the development and growth of new and exciting experiences for music fans everywhere, when used responsibly,” the letter stated. Regretfully, certain platforms and developers are using artificial intelligence (AI) to suppress creativity and harm musicians, artists, songwriters, and rights holders.
“We demand that all AI developers, tech firms, platforms, and digital music services make a commitment that they will not create AI music-generation tools, content, or technologies that undermine or replace the human artistry of songwriters and artists or fail to pay us fairly for our labor,” the letter ends.
Pearl Jam, Jon Bon Jovi, Billie Eilish, FINNEAS, R.E.M., Sheryl Crow, Robert Smith, Elvis Costello, Smokey Robinson, Greta Van Fleet, The Estate of Bob Marley, and The Estate of Frank Sinatra are among the artists who are members of the Artist Rights Alliance.
The Artist Rights Alliance: Who Are They?
The Artist Rights Alliance, formerly the Content Creators Coalition, promotes itself as a non-profit, artist-run group that fights for appropriate recompense for music creators in the digital sphere. We serve musicians and songwriters.
The broad mission of the Artist Rights Alliance encompasses a number of objectives.
The group demands openness from music providers, publishers, record labels, and other entities in addition to just pay. They also want to create an environment that will support the growth of up-and-coming musicians and songwriters in the music business.
