SZA has been left furious after finding out more than 200 of her songs have been used to train AI, potentially including “unreleased” material.
The Kill Bill hitmaker has been an outspoken critic of the tech, which is taking over most industries, and has branding anyone supporting artificial intelligence “disgusting.”
She posted to her Instagram Stories, “[Just] checked and music AI has trained off 238 of my songs. I’m certain some unreleased. If you’re a musician and you support this degenerate s***? You’re disgusting and there’s NOTHING YOU COULD EVER SAY TO ME TO MAKE THIS OKAY. I hope u have the life u deserve. (sic)”
SZA previously said she feels like she is “at war” because of the rise of AI in music, and she feels the technology is causing particular problems for Black artists.
The Save the Day singer is concerned about the use of artificial intelligence being used to create songs, and is “really offended” by the sound of certain tracks that have been produced using AI.
She told i-D magazine, “I feel like I’m at war because of AI. It’s happening disproportionately with Black music.”
SZA continued, “Why am I hearing AI covers of Olivia Dean, when Olivia Dean just came the f***out? She can’t even collect the streams.”
“I’m also really offended by the type of Black music that’s coming out of AI. Weird, stereotypical struggle music,” she expressed.
“I’m not up against the pop girls. I’m not up against the R and B girls. I’m up against anti-intellectualism and doing things easy. The type of blend of information my human experience provides, AI can’t even be prompted to f*** with. I want to just let this angst drive me into bizarre directions,” the All The Stars crooner explained.
The 36-year-old singer is also worried about how “fractured and fragmented” society has become.
She said: “I feel aggressively Black right now.”
“It’s so scary to realise that we’re so deeply unprepared and fractured and fragmented as a society. The veil is down and anything is happening. We aren’t empowered by a sense of community and solidarity. We don’t have it,” SZA mentioned as she talked about the state our society is in.
