Nick Cave is “disturbed” by the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in music creation.
The singer opened up on the subject in a new interview with The Australian, during which he shared his fears surrounding the impact of such technologies on the creative industries.
“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.
“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.”
Noting that people are “becoming in awe of the banal”, the hitmaker – who releases his new album, ‘Wild God’, on August 30 – added: “I find it all unbelievably disturbing. I’m not worried about my own job or something like that about being replaced or something. Just what it’s saying about us as human beings.”
