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Most of the time, I don\u2019t care too much about celebrity gossip. Life\u2019s too short for me to worry about what musician wore an oh-so-wacky dress to the Met Gala or the crazy thing a movie star blurted out on the red carpet. Every now and then, though, a celebrity I really respect says something so incredibly dumb<\/strong> that it forever changes my view of them. Recently, this happened with one of Hollywood\u2019s most beloved movie stars, Jeff Bridges. On Theo Von\u2019s podcast, the Big Lebowski<\/em><\/a> star just couldn\u2019t stop talking about how cool the AI music platform Suno is.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t already know, Suno is an app that allows you to generate relatively polished music with very little effort. You can plug in custom lyrics and micromanage things like musical styles and breaks, or you can just feed it a basic prompt and let it go to town. Of course, like all AI, the app is built on stolen content; in this case, songs whose data was stolen from actual musical artists. While it would be depressing to hear any<\/strong> celebrity championing such technology, it\u2019s that much more painful hearing it from Bridges, whose Big Lebowski<\/em> character remains the ultimate counterculture hero in cinema.<\/p>\n

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Actor Jeff Bridges shows Theo Von how he uses @Suno<\/a> to make music.<\/p>\n

“All the guys in Nashville are using it now. Instead of going into the studio and paying, you know, $10,000, they can do this for nothing, man.” pic.twitter.com\/ngQTfyKAj8<\/a><\/p>\n

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Recently, Jeff Bridges<\/a> appeared on Theo Von\u2019s This Past Weekend<\/em> podcast. There, he introduced Von to Suno, and he started out with what sounded like words of warning: \u201cAI is, it\u2019s frightening, man,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s very frightening.\u201d Had he stopped there, all of his fans would be cheering his (admittedly very obvious) statement. Unfortunately, Bridges just kept talking, declaring that AI is \u201can amalgamation of all our wisdom, our soul, our things.\u201d Digging deeper and deeper, he proceeded to play Von a song that he created for his wife using Suno.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can put your demos in and with your melody and your singing. And then it\u2019ll orchestrate it and put on a vocal,\u201d he said before hitting play. After the song, he told the podcaster, \u201cAll the guys in Nashville are using it now instead of going into the studio and paying, you know, $10,000, they can do this for nothing, man.\u201d To his credit, Von asked the obvious question: \u201cBut do you think that holds as much value, though? Or does it even matter?\u201d To this, Bridges disappointingly replied, \u201cThat\u2019s the thing<\/a>, it\u2019s changing. Everything, it\u2019s just changing, man.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Obviously, Bridges offered a caveat by calling AI \u201cfrightening,\u201d and he\u2019s correct that everything is changing. But it\u2019s impossible to see this clip as anything other than a glowing endorsement for AI. This is depressing on several levels. For example, Suno has an obvious appeal to those who can\u2019t play music, the same way that ChatGPT has an obvious appeal to those who can\u2019t actually write or draw. But Bridges is an experienced musician with a band and everything! If he wanted to write his wife a beautiful song, he could have done it himself. Now, like so many other AI cultists, he\u2019s taking the easy way out instead of putting forth any<\/strong> effort.<\/p>\n

This gets doubly depressing when you contrast Jeff Bridges\u2019 pro-AI statements with some of his most famous characters. In The Big Lebowski<\/em>, he played a counterculture icon who was a radical protestor in the \u201860s and serves as the ultimate anti-establishment slacker. Now, the real Bridges is plugging AI, which is the very embodiment of the establishment. In Tron: Legacy<\/em>, he played a gifted programmer who eventually learned that flawed humanity is always better than artificial perfection. Now, Bridges is deliberately downplaying human achievement and creativity in favor of letting algorithms do all his thinking and creating for him.<\/p>\n

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Ironically enough, Jeff Bridges is now closest in spirit to Obadiah Stane, the villain he played in the first Iron Man<\/em><\/a>. In that film, he sneers something at Tony Stark that Bridges is effectively sneering at musicians right now: \u201cYou really think that just because you have an idea, it belongs to you?\u201d The answer of everyone with an ounce<\/strong> of actual creativity is a resounding, \u201cyes!\u201d Seeing Bridges sell out for no real reason other than caping for AI is one of the most disappointing sights in the world. What\u2019s the most disappointing sight, though? Simple: the garbage comments left by AI bros who can\u2019t even think of their own burns!<\/p>\n

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