Nick Cave on ChatGPT and the creative process
From the article:<p>&gt; ChatGPT is fast-tracking the commodification of the human spirit by mechanising the imagination. It renders our participation in the act of creation as valueless and unnecessary.  That ‘songwriter ‘you were talking to, Leon, who is using ChatGPT to write ‘his’ lyrics because it is ‘faster and easier ,’is participating in this erosion of the world’s soul and the spirit of humanity itself and, to put it politely, should fucking desist if he wants to continue calling himself a songwriter.<p>100% agree. AI is indeed an erosion of the world&#x27;s soul by the conglomerate of tech companies who are rabid about going after short-term gains.<p>The reason why people use ChatGPT is because using it is a maladapative response to go after the quickest solution, a response that would have been adaptive in a time of scarcity.<p>However, it is displacing a world of art and creation that was at one time meant to showcase the emotional and intellectual expression of humans into a cash-grab  using cheap &quot;art&quot; that is soulless.<p>If any creation were a true abomination to the human spirit, is the creation of AI.