Olivia Rodrigo has used AI exactly once, as a joke, and she didn't like the results. In a cover story for The Hollywood Reporter published Wednesday (Oct. 7), she said the closest she has come was a session with her producer, Dan Nigro, when the two asked ChatGPT what titles it might suggest for an Olivia Rodrigo song. She describes the suggestions in terms we can't print.
Anything beyond that is off the table.
I would never use AI in any of my music. Absolutely no. Hard line on that.
Olivia Rodrigo, The Hollywood Reporter
It's a blunt answer at a loaded moment for AI in music. Generative-AI music companies such as Suno face lawsuits from artists who say their models were trained on unlicensed music, Billboard notes. Last month Suno admitted to training on audio obtained from YouTube, and Jason Isbell is among the artists suing it, while Dr. Dre recently said he was “embracing” AI, per NME. The same week as Rodrigo's interview, Complex reported, a North Carolina man was sentenced to 18 months in prison for a streaming-fraud scheme built on bots and AI-generated tracks.
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The interview's other revelation is pure rock fandom. Rodrigo told THR she spent an “exorbitant amount of money” on the vintage white Gunne Sax prairie dress Meg White wore on the cover of The White Stripes' 2003 album Elephant. It sold at Julien's Auctions' “Music Icons” sale in May for more than four times the auction house's high estimate, according to Billboard and Rolling Stone, and the lot came with a copy of Elephant on CD. Rolling Stone adds that the dress originally came out of the closet of Tracee Mae Miller, who pulled it for the shoot.
The devotion runs deep. Rodrigo has been a fan since childhood, once ran a White Stripes fan page, met Jack White in 2022 (“Got to meet my hero of all heroes today. Still crying,” she wrote on Instagram), and helped induct the band into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2025, singing “We're Going to Be Friends” with Feist.
She meant to debut the dress onstage at Daisy Chain Fields, the women-led charity festival she headlined at Irvine's Great Park in August. The festival donated $10 million to nonprofits for women and girls, and Melinda French Gates matched it, for $20 million in all. The dress stayed home, though: Rodrigo checked the forecast and decided it was far too hot.
She's busy anyway, with an 86-date arena run, the Unraveled Tour, behind her third album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love. The dress can wait for cooler weather. “Maybe if I do Daisy Chain in the winter, I can wear it,” she joked.
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