Nick Cave: "ChatGPT has no inner being, it has been nowhere, it has endured nothing, it has not had the audacity to reach beyond its limitations, and hence it doesn’t have the capacity for a shared transcendent experience"
Interestingly, he echoes science fiction writer James Blish from 1956 in a story where a simulation of Richard Strauss writes a piece of music: "The 'Strauss' [they] had created was as empty of genius as a hollow gourd."