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I asked Chat GPT to write a song in the style of Nick Cave and this is what it produced. What do you think?

Nick Cave · 16 Jan 2023 · theredhandfiles.com ↗

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Nick Cave did not write this page.

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  1. Our reading

    What a generative model makes is a replication of art rather than art, because it can only imitate or average the choices human makers have already made.

    Their wordsWhat ChatGPT is, in this instance, is replication as travesty. ChatGPT may be able to write a speech or an essay or a sermon or an obituary but it cannot create a genuine song.
    Interesting

  2. Our reading

    Songs come out of suffering, and a system that has endured nothing has nothing to make one from.

    Their wordsSongs 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. Data doesn’t suffer.
    Interesting

  3. Our reading

    Making something great is the opposite of resembling what is already recognised as great.

    Their wordsWhat 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.
    Interesting