Olivia Rodrigo draws a 'hard line' on AI after ChatGPT's song title ideas came back 'awful'

Olivia Rodrigo says she will never use AI in her music, and she calls it a hard line.

“I would never use AI in any of my music,” she told The Hollywood Reporter in a cover story published October 7, 2026.

The closest she has come, she said, was one ChatGPT request for song title ideas. Every answer was awful.

What Olivia Rodrigo told The Hollywood Reporter about AI

The interview happened 40 hours after Rodrigo headlined Daisy Chain Fields, the women-led charity festival she built from the ground up, in front of 50,000 people in Irvine, California. Writer Ethan Millman contrasted her confessional songwriting with the “soulless AI slop” that has flooded streaming services.

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Absolutely no. Hard line on that.

Then she told the ChatGPT story. “The closest I’d ever got is that once, me and [producer] Dan [Nigro] were like, ‘God, I wonder what ideas ChatGPT would have for an Olivia Rodrigo title,’” she said. Her verdict: they were all “f–king awful.”

Nigro produced her first 2 albums, Sour and Guts.

Why Olivia Rodrigo’s AI stance became a talking point this summer

AI was already attached to her name before the interview. In July, photos of Rodrigo on a date with a New York private equity associate spread online, and Billboard reported he was believed to work for AI investment firm Hg Capital.

Some fans argued that dating someone in finance clashed with the values she stands for. Rodrigo told THR he was never her boyfriend, and that being photographed on casual dates “feels really invasive.”

Artists drawing their own AI lines in 2026: Rodrigo, Fred again.., Bangalter and Bryan

She isn’t the first big name to draw a line this year, and each of them drew it in a different place:

• Fred again.. said he feels no pull to try AI music, because making the music is the part he loves.
• Thomas Bangalter rejected creative AI because prompting can’t give him the surprises he works for.
• Luke Bryan denied AI wrote his single, then said writers had cloned his voice on pitch demos.
• Joe Bonamassa is fine with a Suno lyric, but not with AI singers sharing a category with living artists.

So the 5 artists here hold 5 different positions on AI. Rodrigo’s is the simplest one: none of it, anywhere in her music.

How a one-line ChatGPT prompt shapes the song titles it returns

ChatGPT only works with what’s in the chat. Ask it for “an Olivia Rodrigo title” with no song attached, and all it has is what it already knows about her public catalog, so it hands back titles that could fit almost any pop artist.

Give it the lyric draft, the story behind the song, a few titles you love and the words you’d never use, and you get a shortlist you can actually react to.