From his Facebook:

I would like to take a moment from the bully pulpit and express my opinion and thoughts, which we all know are the deepest most important thoughts available on the interwebs. The music business over the last 20+ years has been decimated, as we all know, and as we all hear musicians talk about every day. I hate hearing it. Every business is tough, and just because we chose a creative job to "express our true inner selves" does not mean anyone owes us a living doing it. And it rings hollow to the guy or girl who gets up at 5am to sweat their ass off doing a job they hate. I personally try and sustain as many creative and talented people as possible, my main art collaborator, and the core musicians and guests I use to make my records.

When I see people criticizing artists for using AI to generate images, promo items, or even art, or musical parts…the issue was never whether we'd rather have the 30 piece band, plus orchestra, and the greatest photographers and artists on the planet. Of course we would. It's that the ecosystem that used to pay for them is gone.

The reality is either you use the tools available to present creative ideas in the best way possible, with the options you have…or you don't. This is what technology does, and always will do. Multitrack recording was cheating. The electric guitar was cheating. Synthesizers, drum machines, samplers, Auto-Tune…all cheating, right up until they were just instruments.

It's very brave for a massive Hollywood director to say no AI when dealing with 100,000,000 dollar budgets…but what about the kid in his dorm, who has a vision and limited resources but is driven to tell a story…should he just not tell it? Maybe I'm crazy, but I believe the more successful that kid (or any artist) is, the more people get hired over time (crew, business, creative) to realize the vision.
But I do have a solution…if you don't personally want to use AI…might I suggest you don't use it. If you don't want to use tracks live, wait…hear me out…don't use them.

For clarity, every lyric, melody and song is 100% written by me and that's just the way I do it. I have always made the music I wanted to make, with no real thought to whether it would or wouldn't be successful or resonate. But music, IMHO, highest calling is to provide escape from the chaos of the world, whether the most complex chaotic atonal jazz fusion, to the simplest pop…most people are too busy trying to survive in their own lives to worry about whether band X made a poster using AI, or recorded to a grid, or used samples.

And none of this is a cheap ploy at engagement. See, I didn't even mention that the pre-order for The Dancing Floor begins this Friday. Bandcamp Friday. :)