Dutch symphonic metal band WITHIN TEMPTATION  will release its eighth studio album, “Bleed Out”, on October 20, released via the group’s own label Force Music Recordings. In a new interview with Metal Talk, WITHIN TEMPTATION singer Sharon Den Adel weighed in on a debate about people using AI (artificial intelligence) to produce music videos as well as a tool to create melodies, harmonies and rhymes based on AI algorithms and machine learning (ML) models. She said: “Well, not to make music, not for me. What we did use it for was our video. We’ve released two songs, ‘Wireless’ and ‘Bleed Out’, with AI videos. The second one was filmed with the whole band, the normal traditional way of filming with just one person, who was an AI expert, and it took us one month to get some kind of lip sync, which was very difficult.”

Elaborating on the challenges in using AI-generated videos, Sharon said: “It’s very difficult to use AI. It’s not as simple as people think unless you don’t want to make it lip sync. That’s the most difficult thing to do. AI doesn’t do what you want it to do. It just comes up with four options, and every time you have to choose from those four options of the word you have given it to get the look that you want. For instance, with the ‘Wireless’ video, we had a soldier’s helmet and all of a sudden, it turned into a mushroom, and you can’t stop it.

“People think it’s very easy, maybe for other things, but for the visual thing that we’re doing it’s still quite difficult.”

Watch ‘Bleed Out’  below.