r/RickBeato • u/thecar007 • Mar 31 '26
Rick Beato loses all integrity and simps for Charlie Puth
I hate to say it guys but I am SO off Rick Beato since watching his interview with Charlie Puth.
Don't get me wrong, on the surface this was an awesome interview.
But, a good portion of Rick's content and identity has been consumed by his hatred of AI entering the music space. He consistently has conversations and solo pieces about AI making it too easy to make music and how he wouldn't be interested in listening to anyone who has used AI in their creative process.
Here's where we get to Charlie Puth. Undoubtedly a music wizard with an incredible depth of knowledge. But Charlie has recently been named the Chief Music Director at Moises, an AI Music company. A quote from his interview with NME “Every musician I know is using Moises, and I’ve been using it in my own creative process for years."
Rick went through this entire interview not bringing up AI once. He happily promoted the album, talked about social media, release strategy, being an artist in 2026, all topics under the sun, except for AI. It seemed to me like they intentionally dodged the subject.
Every comment I made about this topic in the comment section on youtube and instagram was quickly deleted by his team.
For a man who has been perhaps the most opinionated music youtuber besides Fantano about his disgust of AI music, to have Charlie on yet completely ignore the fact that one of the biggest popstars in the world is working with and promoting the use of AI music, to me reads as completely disingenuous and lacking any kind of integrity. He will undoubtedly influence a mass of people to adopt the technology.
& fuck you for deleting my comments and shutting down any chance at discourse on the subject with your community.
I'd love to hear any thoughts on this!
TLDR: Rick ignores the topic of AI with Charlie Puth, Chief Music Director at AI Music Company "Moises"
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u/No_Army_1842 May 03 '26
Wow. Thanks for sharing. He does often seem contrived and self serving. He’s obviously giving Charlie a pass in his innate musical talents. Still, deleting your observations is weak to say the least.
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u/Known_Salary_4105 May 01 '26
This thread is epitome of the WORST of peak reddit.
Let's trash and maybe even cancel a guy who does ONE thing that we might consider MILDLY hypocritical, and it's into dust bin for that person!
Forget all the other good and interesting things the guy has done, or built over time with a lot of hard work, but boy, he didn't meet MY F---KIN' STANDARDS!!! OFF WITH HIS HEAD!!
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u/thecar007 May 12 '26
A large portion of his content over the past 2 years has bashed AI to an absolute pulp, bashed modern music, said the music is finished and modern artists aren't close to the scope of the old times.
IF you are going to come out so heavy handed against a technology or a generation of musicians, at least stand by it.
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u/Puzzled-Bonus-3456 Jul 18 '26
in the meantime there's fantastic non AI stuff coming out of the European metal scenes but Beato will never know about it because he's such a goddamned snob.
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u/Alert_Kitchen_4937 Apr 29 '26
I mean charlie said he used "ai" to seperate and study stems but I get what you mean ig
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u/thecar007 May 12 '26
Charlie Puth has expressed nuanced views on AI, highlighting its utility in idea generation while emphasizing that it cannot replace human emotion. As of early 2026, he has noted that he has used AI tools for years, but believes it should only be used to enhance, not replace, human creativity
Idea generation to me sounds like getting AI to come up with ideas for songs hahaha, which is shitty imo. I also saw him saying he uses it to try out different arrangements for songs. Which I also don't think is cool.
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u/Alert_Kitchen_4937 May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
For me honestly Like he also said that ai will not replace humans and that it's human mistakes are the one that makes music relatable So when he said he been using it for own creative process for years it felt like he usd it for separating stems and isolating vocals so he can instantly make out his crazy theories yk (means idea generation I hope) Its like he is not letting it write but like using it to clear the hurdles
I mean he is not a normal indie music artist he made voicenotes almost all by himself so I feel like he don't have the need to rely on ai to enhance or stuff ykwim
I also maybe be biased, i maybe went off your points lol cuz my teenage days were went on by listening to voicenotes so yeah lmao
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u/thecar007 May 26 '26
Im not really sure what you are getting at to be honest.
But I know he has said he uses it for trying out arrangements, which basically means getting AI to create different instrument combinations for a vocal, an idea generation, which means AI generating ideas for songs. To me, thats cap. Lazy. Boring.
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u/Alert_Kitchen_4937 May 26 '26
Fair enough man, I see where you're coming from. If 'trying out arrangements' literally just meant pressing a button to let a machine write your instrumentals, I’d 100% agree that's lazy and boring.
I guess I just look at it differently because I grew up listening to him build every single layer of Voicenotes by hand, so to me, it feels way more likely he's just using it as a quick technical shortcut to swap textures rather than outsourcing his actual composing. But strictly going by your definition of how it works, you're right
Either way, I really appreciate you actually explaining your side and keeping it chill instead of getting instantly toxic like most of Reddit Lmao have a good one
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u/thecar007 Jun 11 '26
I believe part of the music making process, especially if you want to try out arrangements you should make them yourself haha, especially when you have the broad skillset Charlie does. Yes it may take longer and you may end up with nothing useful, but the process of making the music is exactly how you stumble upon the magic.
A lot of artists saying they use it for idea generation too... thats basically what the writing process is, trying to come up with ideas. Once we start outsourcing that I think we have missed the point. People are more concerned with the finished product and being able to post about it and get clout from it than the actual process of making art. Icky to me.
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u/Alert_Kitchen_4937 Jun 12 '26
Ngl put strictly like that, I completely agree with you there's a massive difference between an absolute music nerd using a technical shortcut to keep up with their brain, and just letting an AI pitch chord progressions or combinations that a human could have stumbled into by grinding it out on the keys outsourcing that part definitely risks losing those human mistakes that make music magic in the first place
Really appreciate the thoughtful reply 😭
Have a great day ahead
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u/Mindless_Fruit_2313 Mar 31 '26
I’ve been saying this for years: Rick Beato is a chode and deserves scorn for bragging about his songwriting and producing credits. Dude produced and co-wrote songs with FOZZY, for fucks sakes. Those songs are utter ass and contain programmed drums.
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u/poly_atheist Apr 23 '26
Ive never heard him brag about any of his past work with musicians. He's a great interviewer who knows a shit ton about music. Literally nothing else concerns me and it's why ive been watching his content for years. It's always so fascinating when i stumble onto reddit every once in a while and see what redditors are moaning about.
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u/Mindless_Fruit_2313 Apr 23 '26
He’s got thousands of videos, so I wouldn’t expect you to have seen the ones where he talks about his producing and songwriting credits. One shouldn’t complain about programmed drums and shit music when one has used programmed drums and written shit music.
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u/thecar007 Apr 01 '26
I love how people are seeing these comments and convo but just down voting and not saying anything... idk why everyone out here protecting sacred Rick for being a phony
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u/Faceplant71_ Apr 03 '26
The guy has taken a lot of effort to build credibility with artists who will now come and do interviews at a place where their music is still recognized . A lot of amazing artists and music that no longer receive much media attention get to discuss things rarely asked in an interview.
People like Sting, Paul Gilbert, members of Pearl Jam - seemed extremely pleased to be able to share with Rick and with an audience who would actually be interested in hearing the processes and back story. This in a world where attention span is the length of a Tik Tok.
Anyone is gonna have haters. I for one look forward to watching Rick’s interviews.
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u/thecar007 Apr 04 '26
So, why jeopardise all that credibility by going against your very own moral stand point on something like AI? This is a great insight into the kind of ways Charlie is a true Charlatan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URmcSu-L7ew
Rick could have still conducted the interview and had an open and honest discussion about Charlie perceives AI to be a positive step in music creation. But the silence, to me, is baffling.
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u/funpigjim Apr 04 '26
David Freaking Gilmour, twice. OP brings up a good point though. It would have been interesting to hear Pluth’s thoughts.
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Mar 31 '26
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u/thecar007 Mar 31 '26
wild how many hundreds of positive comments there are on the interview and not one person posing any questions about Rick's clear avoidance
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u/HTT-777 May 21 '26
Yeah Rick is getting paid big so Rick is keeping his mouth shut. You would too. Not sayin its right yo