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Legacy musicians start drawing a hard line against AI-avatar touring

Stereogum, Oct 5 · read the original

Queen's Brian May says the band will not tour again and remains wary of a hologram or AI-avatar show built from the band's own likeness, now that the technology could replace a touring act for the first time.

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