After criticising ai multiple times, nick cave have released a video using the technology to mark the 40th anniversary of the bad seeds’ ‘Tupelo’.
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The musician has been a vocal critic of ai, calling it “unbelievally disturbing” and saying that he believes it will have a “Humiliating effect” on the Creative Industries.
He’s also previously shared his thinking People out there that actually think the artistic act is so mundane that it can be replicated by a machine. “
Before that, he revised on his blog The red hand files That he’s received numerous submissions from his fans, of song lyrics written “in the style of nick cave” on chatgpt. The singer wasn’t inspired by the results, calling Iy “bullshit” and “a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human”.
Now, Thought, it appears his attitude towards the software has softtened, as it features in a new video for the 1985 Single ‘Tupelo’, Made as a GIFT by Filmmaker andrew Dominik.
The track, which cave notes he has performed “at Nearly Every bad seeds concert since it was the first written”, descibes the birth of elvisesly during a heavy stom in tupelo, MisSSSPI.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xndm9w2f3ke
Writing on The red hand files Earlier Today (July 29), Cave Responded to a Fan Asking If Changing Your Mind is a Sign of Weakness, explaining the use of ai in the video.
He said that dominik made made the film, which uses ai to brings still archival images “to life”, without his knowledge, and that he was initially Sceptical towels it. Cave then Wrote that Dominik Responded to His Hesitation, Saying: “Suspend your fucking prejudices and take a look!”
The two have previously worked togetra on cave’s 2016 documentary One more time with feeling and the 2022 film This much i know to be true Which explred the creative relationship between cave and warren helis.
Upon watching the video, he “found it to be an extraordinarily profound interpretation of the song – a Soulful, Moving, and Entrely Original Realling of ‘Tuplo’, Rich In Mythos and A Touching Tributte to the Greet to the Greet Elvis Presley, as well as to the song itself. “
He added that the ai-nimated photos of presley “Had an uncanny quality, as if he had been raised from the dead, and the crucifixion-resurrection images at the end was botheking and deeeply Affecting. “
“As I Watched Andrew’s Surreal Little Film, I Felt My View of Ai as an artistic device soften.
Watch the video Above.
Elsewhere, Cave recently looked back at the 10 years since his son sancewas, and shared what he has learned from his experience of Grief.
In other nick cave news, the artist has recently shared his pre-show ritual and his own advice for finishing songs, and also reveled that he turned down an oppportunity to collaborate to collaborate with morrissey, despie Considering Him One of “The Best Lyricists of His Generation”.
Before then, Cave spoke to Nme In 2023 Cave and Opened Up About How He Believes Some of the most powerful music often come from the most divisive personalities.
“I don’t particularly care where my art com. It doesn Bollywood me if some one wears a for britain badge (morrisesey) or is an annati-semite or whater and hee ‘ He explained. “It’s not that I agree with their politics, which I do’t, I just think that what they’re putting into the world (with music) is essentially good so it should be encouched.”
“It’s no accident that the real Great stuff is often made by the most problemtic People,” He Continued. “I don’t quite undertand it, but there’s certain no metric that say that virtuousness makes good art.”
