"it will stop us caring about something like the artistic struggle that we will just accept what is fed to us through these things" Nick Cave has opened up about the usage of artificial intelligence (AI) within music, saying that it is “unbelievably disturbing.” In a new interview with The Australian , Cave discussed his fears about AI and its impact on the creative industries, sharing that he believes it will have a “humiliating effect” on them. “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.
We don’t make things anymore. We just consume stuff. It’s frightening,” he said.
He continued: “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.” A post shared by Nick Cave (@nickcaveofficial) The ‘Red Right Hand’ singer went on to say that he sees humans “becoming in awe of the banal”, and then went on to cite AI music generator Suno and labelled it as “utterly banal” with “no soul or spirit”. He then said that though services like Suno may be able to create “good” songs, he finds the concept “quite terrifying.
” “I find it all unbel.