Charlie Puth Let an AI Write His Next Hit and It's Frankly Terrifying

The rise of artificial intelligence has been the subject of concern in the realm of science fiction for decades, and these days you can't scroll for more than a minute or two on social media before stumbling across some deeply uncanny AI art, usually followed by a flurry of concerns surrounding machine learning and robots coming for our jobs.

But is AI really that formidable? To find out its true capabilities, Men's Health put a chatbot in a room with Charlie Puth. In the first installment of our new JackedGPT series, the pop star peppers ChatGPT with questions about his career and fitness routine, including asking it to describe what kind of protein shake he would be (vanilla).

Puth then challenges ChatGPT to write him a workout song that will get him pumped up, but that would also fit into his back catalogue of music.

Here's what the bot comes up with: "I got my gym bag packed, my head in the zone, going to hit the weights, going to push it alone. Got my playlist queued, my heart rate's high, going to run this mile, going to touch the sky."

Puth remains unimpressed. "And they're criticizing me for being vanilla," he jokes. "It's kind of hard for me to imagine what something like that might sound like because the lyrics are so trash."

ChatGPT also offers Puth some advice that he can apply to his music career, including a warmup routine for before he goes out on stage (breathing exercises, neck stretches, shoulder rolls, arm stretches), and suggestions as to which artists he should work with in the future (Dua Lipa tops the list) and what songs he should cover (classics by Prince and Whitney Houston).

Puth is, to say the least, unnerved by the accuracy of the bot's answers.

"I'm frightened, quite frankly," he says, speculating that this kind of technology could "replace human intelligence" entirely in the future.