Pearl Jam, Jon Bon Jovi Among Group of Artists Taking a Stand Against AI

Pearl Jam and Jon Bon Jovi are among a diverse group of artists known as the Artist Rights Alliance who are taking a stand against AI.

In an open letter published via Medium, the Artist Rights Alliance is calling on "AI developers, technology companies, platforms and digital music services to cease the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to infringe upon and devalue the rights of human artists."

The letter further states, "Make no mistake: We believe that, when used responsibly, AI has enormous potential to advance human creativity and in a manner that enables the development and growth of new and exciting experiences for music fans everywhere. Unfortunately, some platforms and developers are employing AI to sabotage creativity and undermine artists, songwriters, musicians and rightsholders."

The letter concludes, "We call on all AI developers, technology companies, platforms and digital music services to pledge that they will not develop AI music-generation technology, content or tools that undermine or replace the human artistry of songwriters and artists or deny us fair compensation for our work."

In addition to Pearl Jam and Jon Bon Jovi, other artists who are part of the Artist Rights Alliance include Billie Eilish, FINNEAS, R.E.M., Peter Frampton, Sheryl Crow, Robert Smith, Elvis Costello, Smokey Robinson, Greta Van Fleet, The Estate of Bob Marley and The Estate of Frank Sinatra.

Formerly known as the Content Creators Coalition, the Artist Rights Alliance describes itself as, " ... a non-profit, artist-run organization advocating for music creators for fair compensation in the digital realm. We work for songwriters and musicians."

The Artist Rights Alliance has many goals that fall under their overall mission. In addition to fair compensation, the group also aims for transparency from music services, publishers, record companies and more. They're also striving to build an ecosystem that will help new artists and songwriters flourish in the music industry.

Bon Jovi has been active for over four decades, and they aren't showing signs of slowing down.

Their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame career has netted them over 130 million albums sold worldwide and legions of fans spanning generations.

Narrowing down their catalog to a select number of songs and ranking them is a daunting task, but here are Bon Jovi's 35 best songs, ranked.

A new docuseries about Bon Jovi is set to premiere on Hulu on April 26. The docuseries is titled Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story.

The docuseries also has the cooperation of all Bon Jovi members, both past and present. A teaser trailer of the docuseries offers a supercut of the band's wild career, including the exit of guitarist Richie Sambora.

Additionally, the teaser trailer shows Jon Bon Jovi in a hospital bed. He's holding a dry-erase board that simply says, "I'm good." Meanwhile, an unidentified voiceover says, "Jon's going through his challenges." It then cuts to JBJ saying, "It almost killed us."

The "challenges" appear to be about Bon Jovi's recent vocal issues, which he discussed during the Pollstar Live! conference in February 2024.

Per Ultimate Classic Rock, Bon Jovi said, "It's become public knowledge now, but I've had major reconstructive surgery in my vocal cords, and I never had anything like this, ever. So it's been a difficult road, but I found a doctor in Philadelphia who did something called a medialization, because one of my cords was literally atrophied."

A description of Thank You, Goodnight from Hulu also promises it will delve into the band's "most public moments of friction." Of course, this is likely a reference to the 2013 exit of Sambora, who has often talked about the potential of rejoining the band.