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Slipknot’s Clown Backs AI as a Creative Tool in Escapist Interview

The pro-AI stance highlights a widening split in metal over synthetic works.

Overview

  • Cowan says he is “employing AI 190 percent,” describing it as “a professor in my pocket who only wants to do what I ask it.”
  • He details using AI to explore new ways to deliver “thousands and thousands” of his poems without changing the original words.
  • He casts AI as complementary to human creativity, insisting “None of it can work without you, the human,” and noting it still takes him to sing it.
  • His position diverges from critics including bandmate Corey Taylor and Killswitch Engage’s Jesse Leach, who have rejected AI-generated music and imagery.
  • The coverage places his comments alongside concerns about AI-only acts gaining large Spotify followings and reports of significant environmental impacts from large-scale AI use.