Dr. Dre Says Only “People Who Have Trouble Creating” See AI As A Threat

You're never going to believe this, but another mega-rich music mogul has arrived at the position that the use of generative artificial intelligence in music production is Good, Actually. This time around, the mogul in question is Dr. Dre, and he says that he is, in fact, using AI while making the music that he will presumably never release. He also makes the same instantly tired argument at Two Shell — that backlash against AI is motivated by the same retrograde ideas that once drove backlash against synths and drum machines.Dre makes his extremely predictable points in a recent New York Times interview about business and innovation, or whatever. Dre did that interview with his business partner Jimmy Iovine, another unspeakably rich music mogul who also thinks that AI is a great development. Dre was late to the interview, arriving when Iovine was right in the middle of a pro-AI spiel. When Iovine caught him up to speed, Dre chipped in to say, "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." Allow him to elaborate:I had a discussion with a few people a few days ago. They were against AI, and I’m like, “OK, you s...