Bernard Fanning

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7am · “It’s f***ing bad manners” Bernard Fanning on AI robbing Australian music · 5 Jul 2026 podcast

And this idea that our music can be traded as an economic token, or our ideas are somehow able to be our property,

is able to be traded away is ludicrous.

I guess.

I mean, that kind of goes to a wider question about the regulation of AI, doesn't it?

And the idea that it's Wild West at the moment.

There is no regulation.

I heard someone, an expert, talking about it recently saying that...

the toys that his three-year-old plays with are way more heavily regulated than AI.

And I think we're all cognizant of the danger that it poses.

I mean, this is not to blanket rule out that AI is useful.

It's going to be incredibly useful in a lot of ways and help us to solve a lot of problems.

But it's not going to help us

to process our experiences and our feelings and make them into a piece of art that are there for other people to enjoy and to take some value from.

It would be unbelievably difficult.

I mean, I don't think we can create the impression that it's ever been easy.

You know, we were fortunate to come up in the 90s

when the cost of living wasn't anywhere near as high as it is now.

But we spent seven years before we were paid by Powderfinger, just working, mowing lawns, using the neighbour's mower, and doing traffic surveys, whatever it was we could do in between touring to actually survive.

And I know that young artists are doing that now.

Most of them need to work full time to be able to just pay rent and eat.

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