Boy George has admitted using ChatGPT to write new songs.
The Culture Club singer said he had “fantastic conversations” with the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot as he developed new material.
The 64-year-old, whose real name is George Alan O’Dowd, told Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place podcast “you can train” the software to improve its songwriting capabilities.
“I have fantastic conversations with ChatGPT,” he said. “And I’ll say: ‘Oh, those lyrics are crap. That’s not what I would say.’ You know what I mean? But, actually, you can train it.”
The musician said he was unconcerned by warnings that “someone in China” could be eavesdropping on him through the software.
‘I put out two Culture Club tracks which went to No 1’
“My manager last night was saying: ‘You know you’re talking to someone in China?’” George said, adding that he replied that he “couldn’t care less”.
“‘Who cares?’ I said, ‘it doesn’t matter.’ Because being a legacy artist… I put out two Culture Club tracks [that] went to number one all over the world, which was great a couple of weeks ago.”
He added: “An artist like me, they try to force you to work in an old-fashioned way. I’m ahead of them.”
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