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.