I certainly respect Nick Cave, but I don't think his impression of working with ChatGPT matches reality. I haven't done song writing in particular, but I would

I certainly respect Nick Cave, but I don't think his impression of working with ChatGPT matches reality. I haven't done song writing in particular, but I would think it would be more like a super powered rhyming dictionary... one that knows a bit about syllables and can look ahead by verses and not just sentences. If you want to say something then ChatGPT can't decide what to say, what you feel, what expression will share what's inside you. But when you are searching for those things, when you have a spark you want to make real, it can greatly help in that search. You could also be lazy and just settle for whatever ChatGPT spits out, satisfied that it rhymes. A lot of human-written songs don't offer much more than that. Maybe that's fine, obviously music is more than just lyrics. We don't know yet if these tools will lead to greater forms of expression, more voices able to express themselves; or if it will devalue expression by creating art that has the form of expression with no person underneath being expressed. There's dangers... but it's too early to call.