United Kingdom, June 29 -- Madonna thinks AI in music is the "opposite of making art."

The Ray of Light singer has slammed the use of artificial intelligence and believes there is too much pressure on musicians to have an online following rather than focusing on their work.

She told Vogue Italia magazine: "Once you were around painters and musicians and dancers and artists in one place and working from a very pure place for each other. I value that experience a lot.

"Nowadays you don't do that anymore. Now to have a record deal you think about how many followers you have.

"That's why in Bring Your Love I say, 'Don't try to distract me with numbers'. For me it started not thinking about the charts, the streaming numbers. Algorithms and...