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THE romantics say music has a soul, a human component that can’t be replicated mechanically. The pragmatists insist the brain is just a series of electrical pulses and chemical reactions and anything it can do, AI can do better.

Either way, you’ll find this rendering of Guns N’Roses 1987 classic Appetite For Destruction intriguing. Even entertaining. Depending your your view of AI, you can add dismaying, enlightening, infuriating or exciting to that list.

The “cover versions” are produced by Sono, which will write a song based on criteria the user inputs. Whether GN’R earn anything from this is …. part of the problematic debate going on around AI and music as you read this.

 

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Steve Mascord

Author Steve Mascord

Steve came up with the name of Hot Metal magazine in 1989 and worked for the magazine in its early years. He is HM's editor and proprietor in 2022.

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