2023/01/16

Nick Cave Tells Songwriting ChatGPT ‘Don’t Quit Your Day Job’

● 16/01/2023
“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.”
– Singer-songwriter Nick Cave, expressing revulsion at the lyrics of a song written by ChatGPT ‘in the style of Nick Cave.’ “Data doesn’t suffer. ChatGPT has no inner being, it has been nowhere, it has endured nothing,” he concludes.
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