So many who he felt obliged to response on his eclectic, considerate love letter to all who observe his work, The Crimson Hand Recordsdata.

“I don’t really feel the identical enthusiasm round this know-how. I perceive that ChatGPT is in its infancy however maybe that’s the rising horror of AI – that it’ll without end be in its infancy, as it should all the time have additional to go, and the path is all the time ahead, all the time quicker,” Cave wrote in reply to Mark.

“It will probably by no means be rolled again, or slowed down, because it strikes us towards a utopian future, perhaps, or our complete destruction. Who can presumably say which? Judging by this tune ‘within the model of Nick Cave’ although, it doesn’t look good, Mark. The apocalypse is properly on its means. This tune sucks.”

Cave goes on to say that ChatGPT “is replication as travesty” and “sort of burlesque” which will write a speech, essay, sermon and even obituary, however can’t create a tune.

Why? Nicely, it lacks a soul.

And given he’s the person who wrote “The spinal twine of JFK/Wrapped in Marilyn Monroe’s negligee” (Palaces of Montezuma,/Grinderman 2), we expect he has a degree (what a rhyme!) – skip to the underside if you’ll want to see the lyrics ChatGTP wrote if you’ll want to, or stick to us, and Nick, for now.

“Songs come up out of struggling, by which I imply they’re predicated upon the complicated, inner human wrestle of creation and, properly, so far as I do know, algorithms don’t really feel. Information doesn’t endure. ChatGPT has no interior being,” Cave wrote.

“it has been nowhere, it has endured nothing, it has not had the audacity to achieve past its limitations, and therefore it doesn’t have the capability for a shared transcendent expertise, because it has no limitations from which to transcend. ChatGPT’s melancholy position is that it’s destined to mimic and might by no means have an genuine human expertise, irrespective of how devalued and inconsequential the human expertise could in time change into.”

Among the many many duties ChatGTP has undertaken because it launched in beta mode final November, maybe probably the most alarming instance of its limitations was offered by Christopher Graves, the president and founding father of the Ogilvy Heart for Behavioral Science , who final week when ChatGTP merely made up supposed scientific references to decorate up a response.

The minstrel of Homicide Ballads described songwriting as “an act of self-murder that destroys all one has strived to provide up to now”. It’s about wrestle and struggling and “requires my humanness”.

“That is what we humble people can supply, that AI can solely mimic, the transcendent journey of the artist that without end grapples along with his or her personal shortcomings.,” Cave mentioned.

“That is the place human genius resides, deeply embedded inside, but reaching past, these limitations.”

As a songwriter who usually invokes the Divine in his work, and wrote “I don’t imagine in an interventionist God; However I do know, darling, that you just do; But when I did I might kneel down and ask Him; To not intervene when it got here to you” (Into My Arms/The Boatman’s Name), the constraints of ChatGTP and AI with regards to the mysteries of human expertise are removed from omniscient.

ChatGTP’s effort is “bullshit, a grotesque mockery of what it’s to be human” though one AI-produced line did catch his eye: “I’ve acquired the fireplace of hell in my eyes”. 

“That’s sort of true,” Cave mentioned.

“I’ve acquired the fireplace of hell in my eyes – and it’s ChatGPT.”

His full The Crimson Hand Recordsdata submit is right here.

Chat GPT’s tune within the model of Nick Cave is under.