GuadalajaraMexico – The Uruguayan musician Jorge Drexler declared yesterday, Friday, against compositions with applications of artificial intelligence, such as GPT Chat, by arguing that they lack the identity that characterizes songs made by a person.
During a conference at the International Music Fair (FIM) in Guadalajara, the singer-songwriter pointed out that artificial intelligence can be an eminence in the management of words, but it lacks the experiences and emotionality that characterize human life.
”There is no biography behind it, there is no part of reality, of the personal experience of that entity behind it that makes you feel that you are talking to someone who is going through things like what you are going through,” he said.
Drexler offered a talk to students and professionals gathered on the last day of FIM activities in which he showed his conviction that music evokes emotion and in which the composition process plays a fundamental role.
”It's like an ecological exercise, it must be put into the song, as in a recycling concept, not leaving your things loose because they end up weighing us down and turning against us,” he said. In the talk, the winner of seven Latin Grammys for his recent album 'Tinta y tiempo' (2022) spoke about his creative process and the collaborations he has made with artists such as the Spanish rapper C Tangana and his interest in knowing urban rhythms like reggaeton.
“I like to understand the spirit of the time because it is the one in which I am living, the worst thing I can feel in my life is that the good has already passed,” he declared.
He said that the rhyme scheme and the way of composing that the duet with C Tangana in the song 'Tocarte', which won a Latin Grammy in 2022“When I recorded that it was such a liberation, a rhyme scheme that I thought wasn't for me and I thought: 'This is going to sound super weird, I'm a man singing this', when I saw that I could sing it and that it opened new doors for me, it was like falling in love again, a whole world was opening back up to me,” he exclaimed. Drexler heads the cast of the Portamérica Latitudes festival, a replica of the one that has been taking place for a decade in Galicia, Spain and which will have its second edition in Guadalajara this March 2 at the University Cultural Center.
The FIM brought together hundreds of music industry experts from Latin America, the United States and Canada in Guadalajara with 30 conferences and workshops, showcases with 30 artists.