Dr. Dre Says People Mad About AI “Aren’t That Creative”

Dr. Dre doesn’t just see personal value in using AI, he believes those who don’t use it are lacking. “I think the only people that are gonna be mad about the elevation of AI are the people who aren’t that creative,” he told the Listen & Laugh podcast with Ice Cube and Mike Epps.

“I’m extremely excited about AI,” Dre explained. “I love it. I love the potential of it. I love the idea of where it could possibly go, you know, with music, with film. Like, what happens if someone says, ‘I’m going to pay you to be in my movie.’ Right. You don’t even have to be there, but you get to approve what they do. It’s your image and your voice. What’s wrong with that? It’s just a whole new level of creativity.”

The thing is he’s describing — people will pay you and you don’t even have to leave the house — seems to be a) mixing up creativity with laziness, and b) not something most of us can get paid for, but we digress. Cube asked him if he would “feel a certain way” if someone told AI to mix their record to sound more like Dre.

“No,” Dre replied, “because as a creative force and as an innovator, I could not be mad at that. I would respect that.”

He continued, “Why do you give a fuck about how we made records opposed to how the new generation is making them? What if that is just something new? This is what happens with guys that are our age. It’s like we don’t wanna take the time to learn a new technology so we have a problem with the way they’re doing things.”

“This is just a whole new level of creativity that we have to get used to,” Dr. Dre added. “You have to get used to it or you’re gonna be left behind.”

Dre has made similar remarks before. In August, the billionaire producer said that he was “embracing” AI, and claimed that “the only people that see it as a threat are the people who have trouble creating.”