Brian May Blasts AI After Meta Bot Mangled Queen's 1980 'The Game' Cover
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Updated · NME · Aug 12
Brian May Blasts AI After Meta Bot Mangled Queen's 1980 'The Game' Cover
3 articles · Updated · NME · Aug 12
Summary
Brian May posted a failed Meta AI recreation of Queen’s 1980 album cover “The Game,” using the distorted image to argue that “we actually don’t need AI.”
Instagram became his exhibit: after asking Meta AI to show the cover, May mocked the result as the kind of “intelligence” that could soon rule the world.
May widened the attack beyond one bad image, saying the cost of AI’s “inevitable” expansion is too high and urging Britain to block new data centres he says would damage the UK.
The comments add Queen’s guitarist to a growing list of creative figures criticizing AI, even as the band remains largely off the road after touring North America in 2023 and Asia in early 2024.