Kelly Clarkson Loves AI For Music, But Thinks “AI Artists” Should Compete On Separate Charts

Kelly Clarkson was the most recent guest on the culture/comedy podcast Las Culturistas, hosted by Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers. Towards the end of each episode, there's a segment called "I Don't Think So Honey," where the guest has one minute to fire off a hot take or rant about whatever they choose. On Clarkson's episode, which dropped yesterday, Sept. 30, she talked about loving AI but argues that humans should have a separate Billboard chart from, in her words, "AI artists."Her full take, which happens around the 1:22:34 point in the podcast, reads like this:Controversial, I don't care. Here's the thing. I love AI. There are very amazing things with AI that I am obsessed with — and I'm very into it artistically, too. I have fun with it just like everybody else does. But when you see AI artists competing on a chart with humans, I have an issue. I think there should be a separate chart. I think it's welcome. I think it's really cool and creative what we're going to create with AI, musically. People that maybe can't do certain things will maybe be able to do it now. I think it's a fun field to play in, but I don't think that they should be competing with humans. It's basically like h...