{"id":320403,"date":"2026-08-13T15:16:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320403\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T15:16:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:16:50","slug":"brian-may-asked-ai-to-recreate-the-cover-of-queens-the-game-he-wasnt-happy-with-the-results-so-this-is-the-kind-of-intelligence-that-will-soon-be-ruling-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320403\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian May asked AI to recreate the cover of Queen’s The Game. He wasn’t happy with the results: \u201cSo this is the kind of intelligence that will soon be ruling the world??!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brian May has said that \u201cwe don\u2019t actually need AI\u201d and to prove a point he\u2019s \u2018created\u2019 an appallingly-bad version of an old Queen<\/a> album sleeve using the technology. <\/p>\n

Posting on Instagram<\/a>, the 79-year-old guitarist shared that he had used Meta AI to create a version of Queen\u2019s 1980 album The Game. The original, you might remember, features a black and white image of four band members side by side, dressed in black leather jackets and looking mean, moody and determinedly modern for 1980 – Freddie is clean shaven, May is wearing shades and Roger Taylor folds his arms and scowls at the camera.<\/p>\n

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However, in the AI version, three of the band have moustaches, a cheery-faced Freddie resembles a suburban estate agent on dress-down Friday, and it\u2019s impossible to tell which member is supposed to be Brian. Most unforgivable of all, Meta\u2019s AI seems to have decided that Queen had five members, not four.<\/p>\n

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As you can imagine, May was not impressed. \u201cI just had to share this with you guys,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI asked Meta AI to show me what the cover of THE GAME album looked like. This is what it gave me! Good job, eh?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo this is the kind of intelligence that will soon be ruling the world??! Well, great. Maybe this is the time to realise WE ACTUALLY DON\u2019T NEED AI!!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Then he got serious and delivered a message to the new British Prime Minister, Andy Burnham: \u201cI believe the price we are about to pay for this ‘inevitable’ development is way too high. We must not allow these hideous Data Centres to be built in the UK. They will destroy our beautiful country, like they are already destroying beautiful America. Dear Andy – you must stop it now. Before it’s too late.\u201d<\/p>\n

Queen\u2019s guitarist has never been afraid of voicing his opinions. His anti-blood sports stance is well known, and indeed he recently said that Queen would never headline Glastonbury because of \u201cthey [presumably meaning Michael Eavis] like killing badgers\u201d. He has also criticised Brexit, and in a 2023 interview with The i said that he thought the then Conservative government had \u201cwrecked Britain\u201d.<\/p>\n

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AI data centres, though, are going to be an issue for communities throughout Europe and North America and something it\u2019s likely everyone will have to have an opinion on pretty soon.<\/p>\n

Willie Nelson has already lambasted the proposal<\/a> to build one near his hometown of Abbott, Texas, saying: \u201cThe last thing we need is a loud, water thieving, light polluting, data center anywhere near our town (or any others for that matter).\u201d<\/p>\n