From Taylor Swift to David Bowie and Elvis Presley: AI technology creates new songs for musicians

The artificial intelligence bot which Nick Cave accused of making a'grotesque mockery' of his work has hit back at the musician by insisting it'tries its best to generate text that is coherent, creative and conveys a message'. Cave left a scathing review of ChatGPT's rendition of his work, describing the lyrics after fans asked it to replicate his style of music. He's one of many musicians fans are asking the bot to mimic, to see if it can capture the magic of songs legitimately produced by the artist. ChatGPT collates huge swathes of data which allows it to predict phrases and words that are likely to be used in an artist's repertoire. When provided a prompt, such as asking it to create song lyrics for a certain artist, it sweeps the database for all known previous works by the artist and collates sentences using phrases, terms and themes frequently used in association with the musician.