Last year, the Waterboys released Life, Death And Dennis Hopper, a concept album about the late Hollywood icon featuring Bruce Springsteen, Fiona Apple, Steve Earle, and more. The longstanding project of Mike Scott returned last month with a new b-sides LP with 16 more songs about Dennis Hopper, and it had R. Crumb-ripoff AI-generated cover art. One of the singles also came with an AI-generated music video, and backlash ensued. Then he began a Chat GPT-generated rock ‘n’ roll visual history series on Instagram, which of course prompted more negative feedback. The Scottish musician disabled the comments and has been making posts criticizing anti-AI stances.
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