Mick Jagger Sets Firm Boundaries Against AI Music Clones

In a recent interview with Billboard, Jagger distinguished between the band’s use of deepfake technology for visual effects and the potential for voice cloning. The group utilized AI to project younger versions of themselves in the music video for "In the Stars," featured on their album "Foreign Tongues." Jagger noted that this application felt like a harmless experiment, as the performers remained real musicians playing in a real environment.

However, the singer expressed clear disapproval of algorithms trained to produce near-identical copies of existing artists. He joined a chorus of industry voices, including Billie Eilish and Stevie Wonder, who signed an Artist Rights Alliance letter calling for protections against the devaluation of human artistry. Guitarist Keith Richards echoed this sentiment, emphasizing that he prefers music driven by human input rather than recycled patterns. For Jagger, the creative threshold is straightforward: if someone uses AI, it must be to produce something original, not to simulate a legacy that took decades to build.