Thrash described AI as “confusing and misleading.”
The Guns N' Roses frontman, 58, worries that excessive use of technology is leading to more music that “looks and sounds” the same.
Speaking on the Battleground Podcast, he said: “I'm not super excited about this new development, just because I know most people are going to overuse it and it's going to be confusing and misleading.”
“Too many different things will look and sound the same. We can already see this starting to happen.”
While he's not a fan of Slash and doesn't see a use for it himself, he would like to see someone use it to create something “unique and useful.”
He continued: “I'm a guy who loves going into the studio and recording bands live in analogue, so the idea of AI doesn't seem like a totally unrelated application to what I do.”
“I’m interested to see who comes up with something really cool and unique and useful for me.
“But I wouldn't be too excited about an AI recreating something or actually creating something original in terms of music.”
The rock legend's comments about AI came after he hinted that Guns N' Roses were “trying to make” a new album.
The guitarist recently released Orgy Of The Damned, a blues-focused album featuring a string of guest vocalists, but didn't want to “drag” bandmate Axl Rose onto the album because the band is busy working on the long-awaited follow-up to 2008's Chinese Democracy, which he doesn't feature on.
Speaking to the Daily Star Sunday's Wired section, Slash said the reason Axl and Conspirators collaborator Myles Kennedy isn't on the new album is because “it's a personal thing for me and I wasn't going to drag my mates into it.”
“Guns N' Roses are trying to make their own record and I'm working with them in that capacity, but no one else is involved.”
In December, the group released “Perhaps,” followed by “The General,” both of which were recorded around the same time as “Chinese Democracy,” as were their 2021 releases “Absurd” and “Hard Skool.”
The infamous record was delayed and put on hold for years due to legal issues, during which time Slash, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Matt Sorum left the group, leaving only frontman Axl and keyboardist Dizzy Reed.