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'American Pie' icon Don McLean on AI: 'It'll be better than what passes itself off as music today'
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Don McLean, musician, songwriter and creator of "American Pie" and other iconic songs, spoke at length to Fox News Digital about artificial intelligence and his views of the new technology.
"With any technology, you have an inflection point where it takes off," said McLean. "I don't think a computer could possibly make worse music than what I hear on the radio today." — Don McLean "AI comes at a bad time for that because people are all on edge anyway." "There's going to be a lot of lawsuits, a lot of money spent on lawyers. That's the only way to stop it, to make people pay for copyright infringement." "Intellectual property is very powerful and it's protected in the United States." "How can we keep up with it? This is another terrifying thing that we created." Maureen Mackey is managing editor of lifestyle for Fox News Digital.
"Today, AI has merely presented itself — but the inflection point hasn't been reached yet. And that's the scary part."
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