Overview

• Filmmaker Andrew Dominik secretly created an AI-animated video for the 40th anniversary of The Bad Seeds’ 1985 single “Tupelo” by bringing still archival images of Elvis Presley to life.
• Nick Cave, who once warned that AI would have a “humiliating effect” on creative work, publicly defended the video after Dominik urged him to suspend his prejudices.
• Cave praised the clip as “a soulful, moving, and entirely original retelling” and said the AI-animated photographs of Elvis had an uncanny, resurrection-like quality.
• He wrote that watching the video softened his view of AI as an artistic device, admitting that “to some extent, my mind was changed.”
• Despite his newfound openness to AI’s creative potential, Cave maintained reservations about the commercial use of AI and its threat to the artistic process.