What Nick Cave thinks about AI sentience
Australian songwriter and writer, frontman of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Since 2018 he has answered readers' questions in public at The Red Hand Files, where most of what he has said about how songs are made now lives.
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1 dated position, 2023, in their own words. Our reading of what Nick Cave has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingSongs 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.
↗I asked Chat GPT to write a song in the style of Nick Cave and this is what it produced. What do you think?theredhandfiles.com 2nd of 3 in this piece