Jack Antonoff Slams People Who Use AI to Make Music

The rise in AI-generated music has generated a lot of thoughts about the technology for Jack Antonoff.

The Bleachers frontman posted a note to fans via Instagram on Wednesday (May 13), ripping into so-called “musicians” who use artificial intelligence to create material. “What we do has become an ancient ritual,” Antonoff wrote. “You don’t have to write music anymore, you don’t have to record it and you don’t have to bring the band out and play it.”

“And yet for us, the idea of optimizing what we do is a complete miss of the entire point of what compels us in the first place,” he…