Mumbai, April 9 -- The growing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in music has been a hot topic in the industry, and now, popular playback singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya has shared his strong views on the matter.

In a conversation with ANI, the singer expressed his concern about how technology has replaced "real musicians" and claimed that it was composer AR Rahman who started the trend which led to musicians who used to play in films "losing their jobs."

Abhijeet, while taking a dig at Rahman, said that the composer was the one who encouraged the industry to stop using live musicians.

"Baaki jo filmon mein musicians bajate the, woh ab berozgar hain -- mostly thanks to Mr. Rahman. Unhone sabko bataya ki koi zarurat nahin musician ki... ...