Grimes has been one of the most vocal proponents of artificial intelligence in music, having launched an AI vocal service to let creators use her voice in their songs this spring — but even the mother of three Elon Musk progeny has her limits.
The artist born Claire Boucher performed a DJ set at a party earlier this week as part of a developer's conference put on by OpenAI — the tech company that created ChatGPT — in San Francisco.
According to Business Insider, the event was centred around Silicon Valley's latest favourite frightening ideology: effective accelerationism (a.k.a e/acc). Named as a play on effective altruism, e/acc is essentially the belief that technological innovation and capitalism should be exploited to extremes to drive social change, and no idea should be considered too absurd or dangerous; it's the path of progress at all costs. Some of the biggest names in tech, including Marc Andreessen, have sung the theory's praises.
"I disagree with the sentiment of this party," Grimes told the packed nightclub [via The San Francisco Standard] ahead of her set on Monday (November 6). "I think we need to find ways to be safer about AI."
The "sentiment" was reportedly evident at the event, with a web page promoting the party dubbing its theme as a call for widespread AI access and looser regulations. There was also as signage hanging in the club that read "accelerate or die" with a a snake on it, invoking the yellow Gadsden "Don't tread on me" flag that has been widely co-opted by libertarians.
Grimes further expressed her disapproval on X, the website formerly known as Twitter, prior to Musk's reign as tyrannical overlord. (Even though they're reportedly in a legal battle over custody of their third child, she's very supportive of his platform.) "To be clear, I deeply disagree with the thesis of this party haha," the artist wrote, "but I am DJing in enemy territory because I think healthy discourse is constructive!"
She added, "Regulation is good, e/acc is just a meaningless aesthetic that gestures towards a shared vision."
See Grimes's tweets and a brief clip of her set below.
The artist born Claire Boucher performed a DJ set at a party earlier this week as part of a developer's conference put on by OpenAI — the tech company that created ChatGPT — in San Francisco.
According to Business Insider, the event was centred around Silicon Valley's latest favourite frightening ideology: effective accelerationism (a.k.a e/acc). Named as a play on effective altruism, e/acc is essentially the belief that technological innovation and capitalism should be exploited to extremes to drive social change, and no idea should be considered too absurd or dangerous; it's the path of progress at all costs. Some of the biggest names in tech, including Marc Andreessen, have sung the theory's praises.
"I disagree with the sentiment of this party," Grimes told the packed nightclub [via The San Francisco Standard] ahead of her set on Monday (November 6). "I think we need to find ways to be safer about AI."
The "sentiment" was reportedly evident at the event, with a web page promoting the party dubbing its theme as a call for widespread AI access and looser regulations. There was also as signage hanging in the club that read "accelerate or die" with a a snake on it, invoking the yellow Gadsden "Don't tread on me" flag that has been widely co-opted by libertarians.
Grimes further expressed her disapproval on X, the website formerly known as Twitter, prior to Musk's reign as tyrannical overlord. (Even though they're reportedly in a legal battle over custody of their third child, she's very supportive of his platform.) "To be clear, I deeply disagree with the thesis of this party haha," the artist wrote, "but I am DJing in enemy territory because I think healthy discourse is constructive!"
She added, "Regulation is good, e/acc is just a meaningless aesthetic that gestures towards a shared vision."
See Grimes's tweets and a brief clip of her set below.