Overview
- On Tuesday, Sir Brian May posted on Instagram after asking Meta AI to recreate Queen’s 1980 album The Game and shared the AI-generated image he found unsatisfactory.
- He wrote that “we actually don’t need AI” and warned that building large AI data centres would destroy the British countryside and impose too high a price.
- In the same post he made a direct appeal to Prime Minister Andy Burnham, urging him to stop AI development “before it’s too late.”
- Reporters from multiple outlets say they have contacted Meta AI for comment and no official response is recorded in current coverage.
- His intervention has joined a wider music-industry debate, with some artists like Linda Perry urging creators to embrace AI and others such as Nia Archives questioning its artistic longevity, a split that could shape future planning and policy discussions on data-centre siting.