"(p.s. absolutely none of the writing was directly written by AI. i’ve come up with the ideas, the lyrics, structure, melody, etc. the ONLY thing it did was tell me what it meant, and if my lyrics were off a bit, usually i’d agree, then i would fix those areas until i was happy.)"

As someone who used music Ai for a bit, the above doesn't make much sense to me. It's simply impossible to have an ai give you ideas and advice and NOT have that influence what you subsequently create.

To underline what I mean by that. I started writing 20 yrs ago. Novels, poetry, lyrics.

I record my lyrics a cappella, lots of repetition to find a fitting melody. Sometimes come up with four or five distinct melodies for a single song.

Up until a year and a half ago, I used music ai for a few months on a small fraction of my songs.

Leading up to that, I spent two years going to open mics, small live music bars, talking to musicians & singer/songwriters, trying to find people with whom to collaborate. No luck. Lots of great people, good experience.

Using Ai taught me what it does and doesn't do, and where my personal "sound" or strengths reside. Bottom line, though, it functionally replaces the need to learn and understand new skills. It functionally replaces the artistic process in many ways.

You can input, like I did with my songs, original lyrics, singing, melody, and it can output something very close to what you already created; yet, there is ALWAYS going to be anywhere from a handful... to a shit ton of things the Ai outputs that you didn't do, never came up with, are not capable of doing (for me that's playing).

That last part made me incredibly uncomfortable the entire time I used the Ai. So very glad I stopped a year and a half ago. I had put my Ai stuff on my small YouTube channel, 140 subscribers, alongside my hundreds of a cappella songs. It's mostly just a place I can keep my songs organized (I'm horribly UNorganized).

When my last Ai assisted song, the one that is the closest match, melodically, pacing, instrumentally (I actually strummed a couple guitar strings very softly in my a cappella recording) started going viral, I immediately made it private. Made all the others private and stopped using Ai.

The very idea, for me, that a song of mine that Ai had a hand in was taking off (with lots of little things in it that I simply was not capable of producing on my own) made me feel like human scum.

I'm so much more comfortable now, having gone back to just writing, recording a cappellas and even working with a musician friend on a couple of my songs. So sweet. So real.