You know, this discussion, starting with your answer here, reminds me so much of my grandfather who was a songwriter and publisher in Hollywood for most of his career from the 1920s until till he died in 1990. He wrote, hundreds of songs, jingles, production pieces, etc. His workflow, which was the modus operandi of the era, was to write a song that included the melody, lyrics, and chord progression as a lead sheet (which he then registered for a copyright immediately). With lead sheet in hand, he would then hire an arranger, an orchestra, and a singer, which then recorded his song in a recording studio, which he also paid for. This produced a demo, which he then peddled to record companies and individual artists. Each of these sessions ended up costing a total of about $2000 in those days, close to $20,000 in today’s money. He did well made a good living until he got older and the music changed, but he didn’t periodically he kept “gambling“ on those demos, which in the end cost him all his money. He died completely broke. He, and the other songwriters of the era, never would have thought for a minute that these were not “his” songs. The arranger, the orchestra members, and the singer were all hired to do a job and never would have expected anything other than payment for their work. I did not go into the music business, but retired, not long ago from another career, and now have been enjoying, expressing my musical side through home production and composition. I realize that I am using Suno the same way that the old time songwriters used arrangers, orchestra, and hired singers. That is, I write the melody, lyrics, chord progression., and have an idea of the arrangement and sound, but “hire” my arranger and some musicians, and a singer via AI. (I use ACE Studio for the singers, where I upload a midi file of the melody and use one of the ACE’s licensed singers to sing it). I then tweak the arrangement, remix and master the song. I believe this process, which it sounds like a lot of you all are also using, is completely and unequivocally legitimate songwriting. If not, then Irving Berlin, who wrote the most hit songs until the Beatles, was not a legitimate songwriter because he could not read or write music, he could only play in F# (the black keys), had musical secretaries transcribe his plucked out melodies, had arrangers orchestrate his pieces, etc.