Someone asked Nick Cave what he thought of a song made by Chat GPT “in the style of Nick Cave”.
Nick had some strooong opinions..
“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. It is those dangerous, heart-stopping departures that catapult the artist beyond the limits of what he or she recognises as their known self.”
Read the song and Nick’s full reply here.