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Dr. Dre Says Only “People Who Have Trouble Creating” See AI As A Threat

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. Dre, and he says that he is, in fact, using AI while making the music that he will presumably never release.

Dr. Dre Says Only “People Who Have Trouble Creating” See AI As A Threat

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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.

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.

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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. 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.

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This time around, the mogul in question is Dr.

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