Nick Cave on AI: “Its intent is to completely sidestep the sort of inconvenience of the artistic struggle, going straight to the commodity, which reflects on us, what we are, as human beings, which is just things that consume stuff.”
Singer songwriter Nick Cave has never been shy to share his opinions on artificial intelligence, specifically its nefarious effects on the music industry and artistry.
He has previously labelled ChatGPT as an exercise in “replication as travesty” and called out algorithmically generated songs as “bullshit” and “a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human”.
Now, in a new interview with The Australian, Cave further voiced his fear that AI will have a “humiliating effect” on the creative industries.
“I’m an enormously optimistic person about the world in general, but I think the demoralising effect or the humiliating effect that AI will have on us as a species, it will stop us caring about something like the artistic struggle that we will just accept what is fed to us through these things.”
Singer songwriter Nick Cave has never been shy to share his opinions on artificial intelligence, specifically its nefarious effects on the music industry and artistry.
He has previously labelled ChatGPT as an exercise in “replication as travesty” and called out algorithmically generated songs as “bullshit” and “a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human”.
Now, in a new interview with The Australian, Cave further voiced his fear that AI will have a “humiliating effect” on the creative industries.
“I’m an enormously optimistic person about the world in general, but I think the demoralising effect or the humiliating effect that AI will have on us as a species, it will stop us caring about something like the artistic struggle that we will just accept what is fed to us through these things.”
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