Ryan Tedder finds AI 'amazing' for music
The One Republic star - who has written and produced songs for the likes of Beyonce, Adele and Ariana Grande - finds artificial intelligence technology particularly helpful to "change his voice" when pitching tracks to other performers in order to give them a better idea of how their own version ould sound.
Speaking on Smallzy's Surgery, Ryan, 46, said: "It is changing music.
"It's changing it from a creative perspective, I've gotten cuts because for instance, if I'm pitching a song to a female artist, historically I would either just leave me on singing the demo or occasionally I would hire a female demo singer to come in and replace me with what they call a scratch vocal.
"But with AI, I started replacing my voice probably 18 months ago. Like if I wanted to do a song with Ariana Grande, I'd sing it like Ariana in my way, process it, put the song back in and all of a sudden you're like, 'oh my god this is amazing'.
"So I started pitching a song doing that and it started working to tremendous effect... holy cow, it works!"
Ryan finds the technology has helped him to save a lot of time.
He said: "There's a couple different AI companies that allow me to input my idea and then tell it what I want it to do, to sound like, and then it'll pop out the other end.
"What that does is save me half a day of work, it's all the s*** that I would have to do anyway, but it saved me it. So that's the extent that I've used it."
However, the Counting Stars hitmaker wouldn't rely on AI to write lyrics for him.
He said: "But when it comes to lyrics, ChatGPT lyrics has become the joke.
"Inside songwriting sessions, you'll be like, 'Man, that sounds so ChatGPT', like that has become the punchline. The lyrics are so bad it's ChatGPT."
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