Dr. Dre says he uses AI in music production, dismissing critics as “having trouble creating”

Dr Dre says he is using AI in the studio, and that he does not see it as a threat. The producer said so in an interview with the New York Times, published on Sunday. His longtime business partner Jimmy Iovine sat alongside him and went further. “I think the only people that see it […] This story continues at The Next Web

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: Dr. Dre, the pioneering rapper and seven-time Grammy-winning producer behind hit songs like Tupac's "California Love" and Eminem's "The Real Slim Shady," is very much pro using artificial intelligence tools to make music. In an interview with the New York Times, Dr. Dre and Interscope Records co-founder Jimmy Iovine spoke about artificial intelligence's recent foray into music production, with the producer characterizing those who oppose AI song generation tools as "afraid of learning new things." "I don't see it as a threat. I think the only people that see it as a threat are the people who have trouble creating," Dr. Dre said. "I had a discussion with a few people a few days ago. They were against AI, and I'm like, 'OK, you sound like the person that would have been against the drum machine when it came out.' Or synthesizers, right?" [...] Iovine, the music executive and Dr. Dre's partner in Beats by Dre, for his part, says he doesn't "see the downside at all." "There will be some crappy music. There's crappy music now," Iovine told the NYT. "In the studio, when gifted people have AI, they're going to make better records." Dr. Dre said he uses AI in producing "as a tool to see what it would do with what I just did." The award-winning producer also said he is definitely not alone among his peers in his stance on AI either: many producers use AI but fear to admit it. Iovine calls them "closet AI producers," and says Timbaland, the four-time Grammy-winning singer-producer behind a long list of hits like "Promiscuous" with Nelly Furtado, is also one. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

You're never going to believe this, but another mega-rich music mogul has arrived at the position that the use of generative artificial intelligence in music production is Good, Actually. This time around, the mogul in question is Dr. Dre, and he says that he is, in fact, using AI while making the music that he will presumably never release. He also makes the same instantly tired argument at Two Shell — that backlash against AI is motivated by the same retrograde ideas that once drove backlash against synths and drum machines. The post Dr. Dre Says Only “People Who Have Trouble Creating” See AI As A Threat appeared first on Stereogum.

As creative industries remain divided on AI, Dr. Dre is full steam ahead on implementing the technology in his own work. The 8x Grammy winner recently admitted to using artificial intelligence in his music producing, explaining the he doesn’t see the technology “as a threat,” but as “a new tool for creativity.” “I don’t see […]

Dr. Dre shares that he's all in favor of using AI in music and argues that anyone against it has "trouble creating." The post Dr. Dre Is Using AI To Make Music, Says Only People Who ‘Have Trouble Creating’ See It as a Threat appeared first on VICE.

Dr. Dre, the legendary hip-hop producer and performer, sees AI as another tool in the music-tech toolbox akin to synthesizers — and asserted that only people “who have trouble creating” are afraid of AI. Dre, founder of the Aftermath record label and co-founder and CEO of Apple’s Beats, said that he doesn’t see AI “as […]