Ryan Tedder is getting honest about using AI in his work.

The award-winning OneRepublic singer-songwriter and producer, who has worked with acts like Taylor Swift, Tate McRae, John Legend, Miley Cyrus, and Beyonce, spoke out in a recent interview on Nova’s Smallzy’s Surgery.

During the conversation with Smallzy, he spoke out AI transforming the industry, and how it’s being used to write new music.

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“It is changing music…it’s changing it from a creative perspective, I’ve gotten cuts because for instance, if I’m pitching a song to a female artist, historically I would either just leave me on singing the demo or occasionally I would hire a female demo singer to come in and replace me which they call a scratch vocal…but with AI, I started probably 18 months ago replacing my voice,” he explained.

“Like if I wanted to do a song that sounded like Ariana Grande, I’d sing it like Ariana in my way, process it, put the song back in and all of a sudden you’re like ‘Oh my god this is amazing,’” he continued.

“So I started pitching a song doing that and it started working to tremendous effect…holy cow, it works.”

“There’s a couple of different AI companies that allow me to input my idea and then tell it what I want it to do, to sound like, and then it’ll pop out the other end. And what that does is saves me half a day of work…It’s all s–t that I would have to do anyway, but it saved me,” Ryan explained.

“So that’s the extent that I’ve used it. But when it comes to lyrics, ChatGPT lyrics has become the joke. Inside of songwriting sessions, you’ll be like ‘Man, that s–t sounds so ChatGPT’ like that has become the punchline. The lyrics are so bad that it’s so ChatGPT.”

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