“What makes a great song great is not its close resemblance to a recognizable work. Writing a good song is not mimicry, or replication, or pastiche, it is the opposite. It is an act of self-murder that destroys all one has strived to produce in the past.” – Nick Cave
Nick Cave regularly uses his The Red Hand Files newsletter to sound off on various topics. Most recently, he gave an update on the next Bad Seeds album. Today, he’s offered up some strong thoughts about the artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT after someone sent him the lyrics to a song modeled after his own. “Since its launch in November last year many people, most buzzing with a kind of algorithmic awe, have sent me songs ‘in the style of Nick Cave’ created by ChatGPT,” Cave wrote in his newsletter. “There have been dozens of them. Suffice to say, I do not feel the same enthusiasm around this technology.” Read more >
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