Pestilencen Patrick Mameli kannattaa tekoälyä

Vastoin suurinta osaa muista, etenkin taiteen alojen ihmisistä, on Pestilencen vokalisti-kitaristi Patrizio “Patrick” Mameli kommentoinut tukevansa tekoälyn käyttöä esimerkiksi albumien kansitaiteessa vedoten muun muassa rahaan. Aiemmin tänä vuonna yhtye perääntyi alkuperäisestä suunnitelmastaan käyttää uuden albuminsa kansitaiteena tekoälyllä tehtyä luomusta saatuaan faneilta runsaasti kritiikkiä asiasta. Nyt Mameli on jakanut mielipiteensä aiheesta yhtyeen Facebook-sivuilla ja kysyy, jättäisikö joku ostamatta albumin siksi, että sen kansitaide on tehty tekoälyä käyttäen.
Mameli kirjoitti:

“I have to get something of my chest. This constant BS about metal bands using A.I. album covers more and more. There are a few reasons. First, huge budgets for real paintings are a thing of the past. Secondly, the idea of having mutilated bodies, zombies and extreme gore are also a thing of the past for Pestilence.

“When you want to survive in the nowadays industry you have to adapt and Pestilence has always been known to look ahead and never fall back into the old habits not just music style wise but every other new release has had a new approach to our own musically, unlike most acts that rely on their older legacy.
When we released [re-recorded best-of album] ’Levels Of Perception’ that was aimed to revisited the demo style recording, that was asked for by many fans, they didn’t like the production they asked for themselves. With [the upcoming Pestilence album] ’Portals’ we will, again, follow our own path and you could really dig it. As an example this ‘drawing’ was considered to be amazing on my personal FB site. This is also A.I., and is an amazing piece of art. Not the album cover by the way!!!

“And now the real question: would you not buy and album with killer production and song just because a cover is A.I.? Then you are not listening to our compositions that are fully handmade. But rather are concerned with the 40× past you have been living in.

“Start embracing the future of music that is Pestilence.”

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