Nick Cave

The Australian musician and songwriter was responding at length to the unnamed song, which was created by ChatGPT and posted online by a fan. Cave has been ...

I am the devil, I am the savior.” I am the hunter, I am the prey. I am the darkness, I am the light. It’s a blood and guts business, here at my desk, that requires something of me to initiate the new and fresh idea.” [died after falling from a cliff in 2015](https://cnn.com/2015/07/15/entertainment/nick-cave-son-killed-feat/index.html), added: “Songs arise out of suffering, by which I mean they are predicated upon the complex, internal human struggle of creation and, well, as far as I know, algorithms don’t feel. Cave has been using his website, The Red Hand Files, to respond directly to letters from fans since launching it in 2018.

The musician responds after a popular chatbot produces lyrics "in the style of Nick Cave".

It requires my humanness." Judging by this song 'in the style of Nick Cave' though, it doesn't look good. Who can possibly say which? "I understand that ChatGPT is in its infancy but perhaps that is the emerging horror of AI - that it will forever be in its infancy, as it will always have further to go, and the direction is always forward, always faster. But the singer called the results "a grotesque mockery" and "a travesty". Nick Cave has written a scathing review of an artificial intelligence system that tried to write a song "in the style of Nick Cave".

"The apocalypse is well on its way. This song sucks," the Australian singer-songwriter wrote in his newsletter.

Cave is not alone though, as [artists have raised concern](https://gizmodo.com/deviantart-ai-ai-image-generators-1849770091) over the way AI is able to easily lift from the styles of artists to make its own poem, song, or art. Cave continues to argue that since AI cannot replicate the suffering a human may endure, which could be the foundation of thoughtful music, all ChatGPT can do it imitate. A voice that echoes, through the hall,” with a chorus that reads “I am the sinner, I am the saint, I am the darkness, I am the light.” It’s the type of descriptive, existential lyricism that makes a Nick Cave song a Nick Cave song—the problem is that Nick Cave hates it.

In a letter published Monday, Nick Cave emphasized the humanity of art in condemning OpenAI.

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The revered Australian singer-songwriter was asked by a fan to review the track “written in the style of Nick Cave” by the ChatGPT system, a program introduced ...