AI isn’t art, and certainly not music

While tech has changed many things in the music industry, it hasn’t replaced the emotions and experiences that define a song.

A 1998 photo of singer-songwriter Dick Lee, who believes that a song is borne out of one's personal experience and AI can never replicate that, at least for now. PHOTO: ST FILE
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I was horrified when I experimented with ChatGPT by asking it to write the lyrics of “a patriotic song in the style of Dick Lee”.

It delivered something that could have made every Singaporean and my mother feel proud.

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