Ariana Grande has admitted AI can be “troublesome.”
The pop idol recently addressed the use of the tech in fan edits of Wicked material and admitted that while it’s “fun” for them, the technology can cause upset.
“I think it’s very complicated because I find AI so conflicting and troublesome sometimes, but I think it’s just kind of such a massive adjustment period,” Grande said to Variety at the Academy Museum Gala at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles on Oct. 19. “This is something that is such so much bigger than us, and the fans are gonna have fun and make their edits.”
Grande‘s comments on AI came after her Wicked costar Cynthia Erivo said one of the AI-generated poster edits from their upcoming film “degrades” her. Grande agreed that it can go “too far.”
“I think so. And I have so much respect for my sister, Cynthia, and I love her so much. It’s just a big adjustment period. It’s so much stimulation about something that’s so much bigger than us,” she said.
“This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen equal to that awful AI of us fighting, equal to people posing the question ‘is your p—- green?” Erivo stated, reacting to one of the posters.
The pair are set to star as Glinda (Grande) and Elphaba (Erivo) in John M. Chu’s two-part big-screen adaptation of the Broadway classic.
