Gene Simmons: AI in Music Is Inevitable — ‘‘To Avoid It, You’re Gonna Be Left Behind’’

The useful part

There was a [ Al ] Pacino movie years ago, about 10 or 15 years ago, about a... It was about a manager who can't get a break, and he launches this new actress whose name is so-and-so, and it's a big hit movie, but he can't make her available for interviews because it's an A.I. By the way, recently, like last month, there was a Number One country song by an artist who never existed and still doesn't.

How it works

• This is gonna be happening more and more." On a December 2025 edition of "Balance Of Power", Gene spoke to Bloomberg TV Washington correspondent Joe Mathieu about how artificial intelligence is...
• You either join in and try to adapt and try to figure out how that works with you or you're just yesterday's news in a very real way." In early 2024, KISS sold its entire music catalog, likeness and brand...
• You can liaise with modern A.I., ask questions, and they respond, and so on and so forth.
• By the way, I've got a motion picture I'm developing now, called 'Icarus', which is a semi-sci-fi kind of thing.
• You're carving out a little niche on a hillside — 5 million, 10 million, all that stuff.

What to take from it

They make less and less land because life isn't concerned about your plans. "The major problem here, potentially, hypothetically and otherwise, is that if states have the right, and this has to be settled right away — the government must get a federal law that encompasses all of A.I. It's an issue for the UN to get a world body to accept it, because it's gonna happen to the same — same thing that happened to the unions in America.

Example or evidence

• "So the answer to your question is we're gonna have to figure this out, and I don't know what the answer is, but you will not be able to hold the A.I.
• "[Late actor] Val Kilmer, who I knew when he was alive — actually, after me, I think he lived with Cher.
• These tools use machine learning algorithms to analyze existing music and create new compositions based on that analysis, including producing entire tracks using A.I.-generated music.
• Anything — a beautiful horse that you just bring in, if it runs wild… You've got to have some parameters that we control instead of A.I.

Details worth keeping

GENE SIMMONS: 'You Will Not Be Able To Hold The A.I. BLABBERMOUTH.NET GENE SIMMONS: 'You Will Not Be Able To Hold The A.I. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "The future is here.

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