SZA isn’t here for AI music or her fellow artists who support it. The “Snooze” singer unleashed on them in a new social media post, calling them “disgusting” for helping fuel the “degenerate” product. And this isn’t the first time she’s spoken out about the matter. In 2025, SZA, along with other mainstream artists, blasted an AI artist who signed a multimillion-dollar record deal.
On June 20, SZA shared a screenshot of an AI platform and revealed that 238 of her songs have been used to train different AI models. “I’m certain some (are) unreleased,” she wrote.
SZA then slammed her fellow musicians for supporting “this degenerate sh-t,” calling them “disgusting.”
The 36-year-old Grammy winner didn’t stop there. She said those advocating for AI in the music industry are “disgusting,” adding, “There’s NOTHING YOU COULD EVER SAY TO ME TO MAKE THIS OKAY.”
She concluded, “I hope u have the life u deserve.”
SZA Has Called Out AI Models In The Past
This isn’t the first time that SZA has criticized AI models. According to Complex, the singer slammed the product online, saying, “AI is killing and polluting Black and Brown cities. None of you care ’cause [you’re] codependent on a machine. Have a great life.”
In April 2024, a group of artists, including Billie Eilish, J Balvin, Nicki Minaj, Stevie Wonder, and others, condemned the use of AI in the music industry, claiming the tool could potentially undermine or replace human artists.
“We must protect against the predatory use of AI to steal professional artists’ voices and likenesses, violate creators’ rights, and destroy the music ecosystem,” the public letter read, per The Guardian.
“Some of the biggest and most powerful companies are, without permission, using our work to train AI models,” it continued. “These efforts are directly aimed at replacing the work of human artists with massive quantities of AI-created ‘sounds’ and ‘images’ that substantially dilute the royalty pools that are paid out to artists.”
Artists, Including SZA, Speak Out After An AI Artist Signs $3 Million Record Deal
In September 2025, SZA blasted Xania Monet, an AI artist who rose to the top of the Billboard charts after releasing several AI-generated tracks that drew widespread attention. Her popularity spawned a $3 million record deal with Hallwood Media, according to Ebony, which got the “Kill Bill” artist fired up.
“Hey I hate AI. If you f-ck w me PLEASE don’t make any AI images of me or songs,” she wrote. “Ppl and children are dying from the harm n pollution AI energy centers are creating. A stupid photo is not worth polluting and harming underserved communities. Thank you.”
Kehlani also criticized the move, calling the signing “beyond out of our control.” And while AI may be beneficial in some instances, she said she could never “justify” it.
“I’m genuinely sad for people who are trying to come up and their space is being taken up by a computer program. IT, not she, is taking all of the data it’s collected on us and what we want and is tailoring to us. Even down to the voice,” she said.
Teddy Swims Faced Backlash After Admitting He’s Used AI In His Music
Although SZA didn’t mention names in her post, one popular artist has confessed to using AI to help with the creation process, according to The Blast. Teddy Swims revealed in November 2025 that he found the product to be “truly amazing,” revealing that he’s used AI to help him create lyrics.
Swims, known for his chart-topper “Lose Control,” also said that AI has helped him and his producers reimagine songs in new ways. “What we’ll do is maybe just take an acoustic and write the melody and the lyrics and just get the song done and upload it into it and say, ‘OK, I want to hear this song as a country song’ or ‘I want to hear this song as a rock and roll song,’” he said.
There Are Rules Around AI That Swims Doesn’t Support
There’s a part of AI that Swims doesn’t support, he said, and that’s when creators make videos or sounds using his actual voice. According to him, he’s run into legal issues in the past when a content creator used his voice on a track that he wanted to recreate but couldn’t.
“And I was like, I could probably just maybe take this chorus and rework it and write some verses to it,” he said, until he learned his team was running into copyright issues. “And I was like ‘well, that just sounds like b-llsh-t,” he said.
