Sir Brian May said he was outraged by an AI-generated image of his former Queen bandmate Freddie Mercury produced by Meta AI when he asked it what the cover of Queen’s 1980 record The Game looked like; he shared the result on Instagram and criticized the output. May urged British Prime Minister Andy Burnham to intervene, writing that authorities must “stop it now” and warning against building data centers for AI, expressing concern about the technology’s consequences.
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Sir Brian May said he was outraged by an AI-generated image of his former Queen bandmate Freddie Mercury produced by Meta AI when he asked it what the cover of Queen’s 1980 record The Game looked like; he shared the result on Instagram and criticized the output. May urged British Prime Minister Andy Burnham to intervene, writing that authorities must “stop it now” and warning against building data centers for AI, expressing concern about the technology’s consequences.