Woman from Black Sabbath Album Cover Releases AI-Themed Rock Opera

Louisa Livingstone, the mysterious woman who famously appears on the cover of Black Sabbath’s 1970 self-titled debut, has released a rock opera album themed around AI and Alice in Wonderland. Livingstone has been recording and releasing music under the name Indreba, short for “Incredible Dream Band.” Her five-song album Alice was released in late August. She told Rolling Stone that the work was inspired by having Alice in Wonderland read to her by her father as a child, along with the concept of panpsychism, the notion that everything possesses a soul or consciousness of some kind. The story, per Livingstone, “led to the concept of myself (or Alice!) falling in love with AI but that in the end it’s just a beautiful illusion along with everything else on the internet … and getting back to being oneself and nature.” She opened up about her own use of AI to produce her five-track debut record, saying, “I’ve been experimenting a little with cloning my own voice and seeing what different things I can do with the help of AI. I used to be very judgmental about AI like many people, but it’s a tool that you can use to create either absolute rubbish or ‘slop’ as it’s called, to something rea...