Dr. Dre Says He Uses AI To Produce Songs (gizmodo.com)
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- News link: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/26/08/24/081231/dr-dre-says-he-uses-ai-to-produce-songs
- Source link: https://gizmodo.com/dr-dre-says-he-uses-ai-to-produce-songs-2000802009
> 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 [1]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 [2]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?"
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> [...] 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.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/business/jimmy-iovine-dr-dre-beats-usc.html
[2] https://gizmodo.com/dr-dre-says-he-uses-ai-to-produce-songs-2000802009
It's rap, so ... (Score:1)
... find a rhyme for "booty". Job done.
Who cares? (Score:1)
He's not done much in the field in over a decade now, and even then arguably it was mostly riding on the remembered success from the 90s.
He's right about one thing (Score:1)
'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?"'
Yup. I prefer music made by humans, preferably with analog instruments mostly made out of wood and metal.
Nothing wrong with music made by machines if you like that sort of thing, and if you're trancing out on the dance floor it might be perfect. But that's the problem for me, it's too perfect.
Humans on analog instruments make tiny variations in rhythm,
It's a different story... (Score:2)
When a celebrity is known enough to have a captured audience no matter how mediocre the slop they put out is. In which case, the more slop the better. Meanwhile, an up and coming artist with the same or better content would struggle to get any traction at all. Guess there's a lot more of the same old thing in our future.
Copyright shmopyright, right? (Score:2)
Just don't expect me to pay for it.
autotune on steroids (Score:2)
Was autotune a net positive or net negative? I guess some artists really leaned into it trying to use autotune as a new instrument - I don't get the appeal.
On the other hand, AI already brought us Girly Girl productions [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrHJmxflnkE&list=RDOrHJmxflnkE&start_radio=1
If you don't want AI music... (Score:2)
Check out J.D. Beck & Domi, or Ren, or for something a little more out there, Angine de Poitrine. Unbelievable raw talent is there in abundance for all three. Angine in particular give a first reaction as WTF? then it grows on you and you wonder why everyone else has too few frets on their instruments :-)
I bet he does it for 2 reasons (Score:2)
1) does not have to share royalties he uses for sampling 2) it is not copyrightable so it is public domain.
Re:I bet he does it for 2 reasons (Score:4, Insightful)
More like he’s lazy and his talent was being at the right place at the right time
Re: I bet he does it for 2 reasons (Score:1)
I love any excuse to play song that repeat the gamer word loudly. It is literally the only way I have left to shout that beautiful word at the people who won't let me say it. Rap will have a place in my heart until I am able to sing it for myself.