- Award-winning musician Nick Cave said a ChatGPT song written in his style "sucks."
- He wrote in his newsletter that he didn't share some of his fans' enthusiasm for the technology.
Award-winning musician Nick Cave has said a song written in his style by ChatGPT "sucks" and dismissed it as "bullshit."
Launched in November last year, $4 is a new version of OpenAI's artificial intelligence chatbot. The chatbot has been praised, but also drawn scrutiny, for its ability to write in an impressively human-like way and has been used for $4, $4, and even to $4.
Cave, who has won various awards over his long career, is unimpressed with the chatbot's output, however.
In his newsletter $4, the Australian musician replied to a fan who sent him an AI-generated song "in the style of Nick Cave," saying he had received dozens of similar songs.
"Suffice to say, I do not feel the same enthusiasm around this technology," he wrote. "The apocalypse is well on its way. This song sucks."
He thanked the fan for the song but added: "With all the love and respect in the world, this song is bullshit," and "a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human."
"ChatGPT may be able to write a speech or an essay or a sermon or an obituary but it cannot create a genuine song. It could perhaps in time create a song that is, on the surface, indistinguishable from an original, but it will always be a replication," he said.
Cave added that he thought songs "arise out of suffering" and: "data doesn't suffer."
"I have got the fire of hell in my eyes – and it's ChatGPT," the musician wrote.
Representatives for Cave did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.