Nick Cave doesn’t know if AI will “save the world” or “annihilate it”

Nick Cave says he cannot predict whether artificial intelligence will ultimately help or harm the world, but he is strongly critical of AI-generated music. In a response to a fan in his Red Hand Files newsletter, he argued that song-generation platforms risk diminishing human creativity and removing artists from the process.

Cave said the platforms had changed how he thinks about separating art from its creator, since they could produce work without an artist at all. His comments come after reports that music by Cave and former collaborator Kylie Minogue was used to train AI models without their permission; Cave has previously called AI’s use in music disturbing.