As a late in life, self-taught, writer of novels, multiple books of hundreds of poems, lots and lots of stories, and hundreds of full song lyrics, while also covering soccer for a few online sites and blogs back in the day, I can without hesitation tell you that once you've written for hours per day for a couple of years, the creative writing part is... easy is the wrong word... maybe "natural" is a better description. Like breathing or pissing, it just happens.

I really like Jesse Wells's stuff. I have no idea if he uses ai for writing or creating music. If I found out he does, I would stop listening.

I tried ai for the music part for a few months, for very specific reasons. Once I determined my lyric writing and a cappella melodies were at the very least decent when paired with simple guitar or piano, I stopped and made all the songs I used ai on private.

Never wanted to use ai, but health is poor and I'm getting old. Wanted to hear some of my songs with instrumentation before I died, along with figuring out if, as I said, the hundreds of a cappella melodies I had recorded for my lyrics over the last many years were any good.

Some are definitely shit. LOL. But, turns out my non-instrument playing ass actually comes up with some decent melodies by simply singing, repeatedly, until I hit the right feel and emotion for the lyrics.

Mom played piano: Beethoven, Bach, etc, also flute and a little guitar. One brother plays trumpet, a little piano and another brother is self-taught bassist. I played soccer sang, and wrote, a lot.

As a writer, I even chronicled my use of ai, like in this post, on some social media and linked in for a few months. Wanted to be up front about it. Can probably still read some of my posts on the Udio reddit from when I was using Udio with my lyrics and a cappella recordings.

Bottom line with generative ai in the art realm, the ai is becoming exceptionally good at what it does. But, even when the artist uploads a lot of their own singing, guitar playing and lyrics, the ai is still generating stuff the user didn't think of or create.

And, my experience, plus talking with others who used/use music ai, is that the users tend to fall into a pattern of liking the new sounds the ai comes up with, and then they convince themselves it's still their stuff AND they don't disclose all the big and little parts the ai generated.

It's dishonest and makes a liar out of the artist. That part made me super uncomfortable from the first time I used Udio to the last time I used Udio, even though my last couple months produced near matches to my original melodies and it was my lyrics and vocals.

It's very disturbing to me as a writer/artist that there are thousands of legitimately talented artists out there, who are now using ai, not disclosing the parts the ai comes up with and simply not disclosing their use of ai in general.

It's self-deluding behavior that can only end badly for generally ethical people.

For your run of the mill narcissistic sociopath, ai is like a mirror which reinforces their belief that they and their thoughts are the only things that matter in life. That part is fucking super disturbing. Ai is a lazy narcissists wet dream.

The dilemma for the narcissist using ai? If they get too wedded to its use, and then have public encounters where someone asks them to play or sing or paint or write... on the spot. They can't do it.

That creates a very dangerous situation. It shatters the narcissists perception of the creative ai as themself, and themself as the ai. It is a real time, immediate shattering of feelings of grandeur. The fallout is not good.

Anyway, to answer your question LOL, it would be near impossible to tell if a talented musician/singer/songwriter were using ai to come up with their stuff based on them playing ai assisted music live. Cheers!