COLOGNE, GERMANY - JUNE 05: Musician and author Nick Cave gestures during lit.COLOGNE Spezial: Nick Cave & Seán O'Hagan: „Faith, Hope and Carnage" at Theater am Tanzbrunnen on June 05, 2023 in Cologne, Germany. Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave's inner life. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)
For the past few years, the once-transgressive rock legend Nick Cave has used his Red Hand Files newsletter to document his evolving view of the world and the mellowing that comes with age. He has now mellowed on a subject that still pissed him off a few years ago: The spread of generative AI. In 2023, for instance, Cave described AI as an “emerging horror,” though he insisted that he wasn’t too worried about it because it sucks too badly to replace him. But now, Cave has changed his tune on generative AI, sharing a new AI-generated video for his 1985 Bad Seeds classic “Tupelo” and writing about how he has changed his mind on the issue.
