“Jesus,” said Andrew. “Suspend your fucking prejudices and take a look!”

 The Red Hand Files 

"Tulepo"

Elvis AI & Film 

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 40 Year Anniversary 

"Now, my friend, the filmmaker Andrew Dominik – known for Chopper, The Assassination of Jesse James, One More Time With Feeling, and Blonde, among others – rang me to say he had sent me a gift to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of ‘Tupelo’.

“It’s a film to accompany your song, Tupelo,” he said.

I had no idea he was making such a thing.

“I’ve taken a series of still archival images and brought them to life using AI,” he said.

For anyone reading these files, it will be clear that I have serious reservations about AI, particularly regarding writers using ChatGPT and other language models to do their creative work. I also have concerns about song-generating platforms that reduce music to a mere commodity, by eliminating the artistic process and its attendant struggles entirely. (See #214 and #248)

“Oh, really?” I said. 

“Jesus,” said Andrew. “Suspend your fucking prejudices and take a look!”