Nick Cave says a ChatGPT song written in his style ‘sucks’ and is ‘a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human’

• 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.
• OpenAI’s chatbot has been praised — and criticized — for its ability to write in a human-like way.

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, ChatGPT 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 college essays, cover letters, and even to write code.