Legendary musician and writer Nick Cave is clearly not a fan of ChatGPT. ChatGPT is an AI tool that has gone viral by doing an amazing job of successfully completing almost any writing prompt.
Cave is famous for having a close relationship with his fans, one of whom ChatGPT sent him a song “written” “in the style of Nick Cave”. Cave’s entire blog is worth reading, but among some wonderfully wise observations, Cave simply states, “This song sucks.”
Cave writes in part:
“I understand that ChatGPT is in its early stages, but perhaps that’s the new fear of AI. I mean AI is forever in its early stages. Forward, always fast, it can never be, roll back or slow down, move us to a utopian future or utter destruction.Who can say which? But judging by this song “in the style of Nick Cave”, it doesn’t look good..”
Cave says that through the process of cold replication, AI can only create sky art. It is stripped of meaning and suffering. Cave writes:
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OK, so let’s get ready for an unfortunately profound paragraph from Cave. I tried to paraphrase, but apparently he phrased it better than I did.
Cave writes:
Songs are born out of suffering. So they are based on complex, inner creative human struggles, and as far as I know, they don’t feel algorithms. Data is not affected. ChatGPT had no inner being, nowhere to go, no endurance for anything, no daring to push its limits. Transcend. ChatGPT’s depressing role is that it is destined to imitate and can never have a genuine human experience.
That’s the tricky part about ChatGPT. You can see that business application. You can watch them replace or augment human workers.but it can’t make anything very It tactfully hints at the limitations associated with using ChatGPT. There is no real perspective, no experience, no pain, no humanity. It’s a nice bit artificial. But it’s still artificial.
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Cave writes:
Admittedly I’m not a famous musician, but I agree.
