Even the end of Daft Punk is a symbol for integrity, vision and humanity. Thomas Bangaltar explains their decision to stop Daft Punk:
"My concerns about the rise of artificial intelligence go beyond its use in music creation," he says, suddenly serious.
"2001: A Space Odyssey is maybe my favourite film and the way [Stanley] Kubrick presented it is so relevant today - because he is asking exactly the question that we have to ask ourselves about technology and the obsolescence of man."
That's always been his position, he stresses. It's just that people sometimes misinterpreted Daft Punk's aesthetic as an unquestioning embrace of digital culture.
"I almost consider the character of the robots like a Marina Abramović performance art installation that lasted for 20 years," he says.
"We tried to use these machines to express something extremely moving that a machine cannot feel, but a human can. We were always on the side of humanity and not on the side of technology."
That's why 2021 was the right time to pull the plug on the project.
"As much as I love this character, the last thing I would want to be, in the world we live in, in 2023, is a robot."