“[In Daft Punk,] we tried to use these machines to express something extremely moving that a machine cannot feel, but a human can,” Bangalter told the BBC. “We were always on the side of humanity and not on the side of technology… As much as I love this character, the last thing I would want to be, in the world we live in, in 2023, is a robot.
Daft Punk was a project that blurred the line between reality and fiction with these robot characters. It was a very important point for me and Guy-Man[uel] to not spoil the narrative while it was happening. My concerns about the rise of artificial intelligence go beyond its use in music creation”.
– Daft Punk‘s Thomas Bangalter, explaining why Daft Punk broke up. He has since has produced an orchestral album called “Mythologies” which initially started as a ballet score. The album drops April 7th.
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