The interview is a little over two hours long, but Sebastian Bach’s anti-ai rant starts at 1:49:13.
“I can guarantee you this, anybody watching this. You have to understand. I hate ai. I hate- I hate it. Every time I see it in my feed, I unfollow the person. Like, just the other day, somebody posted this old Van Halen footage from Fresno, California ‘78. David Lee Roth, live on stage, and It was one of the coolest Instagram posts I’ve ever seen, old Van Halen. So I followed this person. The next post they did was David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar with their arms around each other, and it was ai! And I’m like, unfollow! I’m telling you right now, people, if you post stuff, here’s Sebastian at the age of nineteen morphing into the age of now, unfollow! Goodbye! Like, all this ai garbage, you have my word that, you’ve known me for forty years almost now, I will never use that in any way. It will always be just me and my band getting stuff together. I can’t believe I have to say this, but I think I do! Like, the only way you could know if something’s not ai is if you trust the person that’s making the art. I’m telling you right now, I’m telling you. You’ll never get that from me. ‘Cause number one, I hate it. Number two, I don’t know how to use it, and I have no interest in using it. So I will always give you real stupidity, instead of artificial intelligence.”
“I mean, just the word artificial that should turn off most people! Artificial! No thanks! How ‘bout real? That’s what I- not into artificial anything, really.”
