{"id":555478,"date":"2026-07-18T03:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T03:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/555478\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T03:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T03:59:14","slug":"mick-jagger-issues-impossible-challenge-to-ai-music-makers-it-has-to-be-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/555478\/","title":{"rendered":"Mick Jagger issues impossible challenge to AI music makers: “It has to be original”"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is not clear, from context, if Mick Jagger knows he\u2019s gone full riddle master. The Rolling Stones frontman recently gave an interview to Billboard <\/a>(per Rolling Stone<\/a>, no relation) in which he issued a challenge to people using artificial intelligence to make music that he does not appear to have intuitively understood was completely impossible: \u201cIf someone wants to make music by AI, go ahead. But it has to be original\u2014you have to have your own input and your own thoughts.\u201d<\/p>\n

To be fair, we do\u00a0get the general point that Jagger was trying to make, i.e., don\u2019t use AI to just copy his voice and his bandmates\u2019 music, because Mick Jagger definitely hates that: \u201cObviously I don\u2019t want to be imitated by AI, vocally and instrumentally, and the band doesn\u2019t,\u201d Jagger said. \u201cI don\u2019t want people just putting stuff out there that can sound exactly like the Rolling Stones\u2014I think that\u2019s obviously wrong.\u201d But he does not appear to have grasped the more general idea that all\u00a0AI-made music\u2014which can only be generated by models trained on a whole bunch of existing music, chopping and screwing those original compositions and then shitting out the resulting slurry\u2014is copying somebody, even if it\u2019s not him and Keith.<\/p>\n

Jagger and the rest of the Stones haven\u2019t been particularly militant on the AI count, given that they released a music video a few months back<\/a> where they worked with the\u00a0South Park\u00a0guys\u2019 deepfake studio to make them all look much younger. (Jagger had some critiques, of the actual output, though: \u201cThey worked on mine first, and it kind of looked like me, but not really\u2014like one of my children when they were 23 or something. And then I saw Ronnie [Wood], and I said to the people working on it, \u2018It looks more like Jeff Beck.\u2019 So they had to do a bit extra work.\u201d)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Keith Richards, in the same interview, was more forthright and critical, and less inclined to setting questors impossible deeds: \u201cI\u2019d rather hear something original,\u201d he noted. \u201cMusic could do a lot better than just trying to copy itself. After all, it\u2019s pretty simple stuff\u2014this is not Beethoven or Bach, and I\u2019ve no doubt AI can do that, but so what? We want new input. We don\u2019t want more and more copying and synthesizing\u2026 Surely there\u2019s enough originality without having to copy nursery rhymes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is not clear, from context, if Mick Jagger knows he\u2019s gone full riddle master. The Rolling Stones…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-555478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}