​Singer Nick Cave reacted sharply to the fact that a fan sent him lyrics written by the famous artificial intelligence program ChatGPT. Several fans asked the program to write lyrics “in the style of Nick Cave”. The Australian artist says he’s seen dozens of versions, and many of them are “jokes” because they have no soul and are clearly NOT written by someone who lived and suffered.

“This song sucks,” concluded Nick Cave after a fan named Mark from New Zealand sent him the text created by ChatGPT.

Cave says this has led to a “grotesque mockery of what it means to be human”.

“It doesn’t look good at all. The apocalypse is upon us,” said Nick Cave.

Thousands of users have tested ChatGPT, offering him, for example, to write an essay about winter in the style of Dickens or compose texts in the style of various singers.

The Australian artist, who performed in Bucharest in June 2018, says that ChatGPT will be able to write better and better lyrics, but will always remain a replica, a parody. “Songs are born from suffering, from the inner struggle of creation, and as far as I know, algorithms don’t feel anything. The data does not suffer.”

“ChatGPT has no soul, been nowhere, tolerated nothing, had no guts to try to push its boundaries.”

What the ChatGPT song “Nick Cave-Style” sounds like.

Verse 1: Deep in the night I hear a call/A voice echoing through the hall/It’s a siren’s song that pulls me/Takes me where I can’t begin

Chorus: I am a sinner, I am a saint/I am the darkness, I am the light/I am the hunter, I am the prey/I am the devil, I am the savior.

Verse 2: I walk the streets with my head held high / I’ve got my demons but I make them fly / I’ll dance with the devil and I’ll play his game / I’ll be the one to call his name

Sources: CNN, BBC

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