A.I.-generated art is not only a threat to the jobs of real actual artists, it's lazy as hell and generally looks bad (though not everyone would agree). Not to mention a lot of the A.I. networks are stealing art and music from artists and musicians who did not consent to have their creations used as a baseline for A.I.-generated slop.
Though if you don't believe me, you can always listen to Lacuna Coil singer Andrea Ferro in a recent interview with Ghost Cult Magazine. Ferro makes a great point that artificial intelligence is useful as an assistant, but using it to straight up take the place of the artistic process sucks.
"I think technology, as usual, is not good or bad. It depends the way you use it. If it's an extra tool to make your life easier and faster, that's okay. But if it has to substitute the creativity of a person, that I don't like personally. I prefer to use human creativity because humans are great because they make mistakes, and from a mistake, usually that's where great things happen.
"Whatever you do — you write a book, you write a song, you write a movie — when you fuck up or you make a mistake, and you can go there and see and realize what's special, how special it becomes with the mistakes, that's where you find a new way. You learn something new, you create something new and unique because you never would have thought about it in the correct way.
"So I think that can't be replaced by machine, at least not yet. And so I think human touch is very important. And there's no need to use A.I. [art for album covers]. If you find the right artist, it's not even that expensive. I think it's reasonably expensive and it's deserved and you can still make money on the merchandise and other things. So it's an excuse for laziness to don't use a real artist, I think, I think A.I. is cool and it can be helpful, but it has to be used with your brain."
Lacuna Coil has a boatload of tour dates coming up in April and May. Get those below. Tickets are available here.
Machine Head, Lacuna Coil, In Flames & Unearth
4/5 Oakland, CA Fox Theater
4/7 Phoenix, AZ Van Buren
4/9 San Diego, CA Observatory North Park
4/10 Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern
4/12 Las Vegas, NV Sick New World (Machine Head & Lacuna Coil only)
4/13 Salt Lake City, UT The Union Event Center
4/15 Denver, CO The Fillmore
4/17 San Antonio, TX Aztec Theatre
4/18 Houston, TX House of Blues
4/19 Dallas, TX House of Blues
4/21 Raleigh, NC The Ritz
4/22 Silver Spring, MD The Fillmore
4/23 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Paramount
4/25 Reading, PA Santander Arena
4/26 Boston, MA House of Blues
4/27 Montreal, QC Mtelus
4/28 Toronto, ON History
4/30 Cincinnati, OH Anderw J Brady Music Center
5/2 Detroit, MI The Fillmore
5/3 Chicago, IL Radius
5/4 Minneapolis, MN The Fillmore
5/5 Winnipeg, MB Burton Cummings Theatre
5/7 Calgary, AB Grey Eagle Event Center
5/8 Edmonton, AB Midway Music Hall
5/10 Kelowna, BC Prospera Place
Lacuna Coil, Unearth & Versus Me
5/11 Tacoma, WA Elks Temple Spanish Ballroom (no Unearth)
5/13 Great Falls, MT The Newberry
5/15 Lincoln, NE Bourbon Theatre
5/16 Des Moines, IA Wooly's
5/18 Pittsburgh, PA Roxian
