Nick Cave denounces AI music; says, ‘this music sucks’
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The Bad Seeds frontman Nick Cave has described as “bullshit” a music produced by ChatGPT, reviews mentioned.
In his publication, The Red Hand Files, the Australian singer-songwriter on Monday responded to a fan who had despatched him a music generated by ChatGPT “in the style of Nick Cave.”
The singer wrote again to the fan named Mark, saying that “dozens” of followers, “most buzzing with a kind of algorithmic awe”, had despatched him songs produced by ChatGPT.
“With all the love and respect in the world, this song is bullshit, a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human, and, well, I don’t much like it.” he instructed the fan.
He referred to as ChatGPT an train in “replication as travesty.”
The ChatGPT’s music included the refrain: “I am the sinner, I am the saint / I am the darkness, I am the light / I am the hunter, I am the prey / I am the devil, I am the savior.”
“Writing a good song is not mimicry, or replication, or pastiche, it is the opposite,” Cave wrote. “It is an act of self-murder that destroys all one has strived to supply prior to now. It is these harmful, heart-stopping departures that catapult the artist past the boundaries of what she or he recognises as their recognized self.
“This is part of the authentic creative struggle that precedes the invention of a unique lyric of actual value; it is the breathless confrontation with one’s vulnerability, one’s perilousness, one’s smallness, pitted against a sense of sudden shocking discovery; it is the redemptive artistic act that stirs the heart of the listener, where the listener recognizes in the inner workings of the song their own blood, their own struggle, their own suffering.”
“I perceive that ChatGPT is in its infancy however maybe that’s the rising horror of AI – that it’ll endlessly be in its infancy, as it’s going to at all times have additional to go, and the course is at all times ahead, at all times sooner,” he wrote.
“It can never be rolled back, or slowed down, as it moves us toward a utopian future, maybe, or our total destruction. Who can possibly say which? Judging by this song ‘in the style of Nick Cave’ though, it doesn’t look good, Mark. The apocalypse is well on its way. This song sucks,” Cave famous.
The Bad Seeds frontman Nick Cave has described as “bullshit” a music produced by ChatGPT, reviews mentioned.
In his publication, The Red Hand Files, the Australian singer-songwriter on Monday responded to a fan who had despatched him a music generated by ChatGPT “in the style of Nick Cave.”
The singer wrote again to the fan named Mark, saying that “dozens” of followers, “most buzzing with a kind of algorithmic awe”, had despatched him songs produced by ChatGPT.
“With all the love and respect in the world, this song is bullshit, a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human, and, well, I don’t much like it.” he instructed the fan.
He referred to as ChatGPT an train in “replication as travesty.”
The ChatGPT’s music included the refrain: “I am the sinner, I am the saint / I am the darkness, I am the light / I am the hunter, I am the prey / I am the devil, I am the savior.”
“Writing a good song is not mimicry, or replication, or pastiche, it is the opposite,” Cave wrote. “It is an act of self-murder that destroys all one has strived to supply prior to now. It is these harmful, heart-stopping departures that catapult the artist past the boundaries of what she or he recognises as their recognized self.
“This is part of the authentic creative struggle that precedes the invention of a unique lyric of actual value; it is the breathless confrontation with one’s vulnerability, one’s perilousness, one’s smallness, pitted against a sense of sudden shocking discovery; it is the redemptive artistic act that stirs the heart of the listener, where the listener recognizes in the inner workings of the song their own blood, their own struggle, their own suffering.”
“I perceive that ChatGPT is in its infancy however maybe that’s the rising horror of AI – that it’ll endlessly be in its infancy, as it’s going to at all times have additional to go, and the course is at all times ahead, at all times sooner,” he wrote.
“It can never be rolled back, or slowed down, as it moves us toward a utopian future, maybe, or our total destruction. Who can possibly say which? Judging by this song ‘in the style of Nick Cave’ though, it doesn’t look good, Mark. The apocalypse is well on its way. This song sucks,” Cave famous.
