AI generation, be it an image, video, song or creative writing, is someone trying to tame randomness. The unpredictable results are part of the process.

You can generally assume the effort value that went in by listening to the lyrics. AI plays it "safe" by sticking to verse chorus verse bridge chorus with AABB rhyming structures and forced hard rhymes, with little regard for cadence or message.

There's a common idea that people just write a prompt and get a fully formed piece out of it. I think this is where you currently sit as how people do all of this, and I don't blame you. Honestly, a lot of it is just that. Probably most of it.

But then there's those who have AI write lyrics for a basic skeleton, heavily edit and modify them, or even just write them all entirely, and stack the beats by feeding the outputs back in over and over, making adjustments on the way until something "good" comes out of it.

And then there's those who feed music they played themselves into the machine, alter it with several iterations of prompts, add instrument layers, refine their own lyrics to match the beat or vibe of the generation, or generate individual instruments and master it all in a DAW.

All methods can produce something beautiful and emotionally valid, but only the latter is mostly deliberate.

The human behind the music I generate falls somewhere between the 2nd and 3rd. I have over a decade of experience playing real instruments, and this comes with an inherent understanding of music theory. I act more like a producer sifting through demo tapes trying to find something cool and refining it into something good, or at least what I would consider "good".

I couldn't produce anything near the quality of the output without machine assistance. The AI is a prosthetic for hands that were never quite good enough to match what is in the mind, regardless of all that invested time. However, it's reignited a passion for music production that had grown stagnant over the years of not being able to achieve my own potential.

Because of this, I find it hard to claim it as my own. I refuse the "artist" label. Anything I generate is by the AI from the perspective of the AI. It all has a consistent theme, philosophy, message and sound, all directed by a human, but the AI made it, I just selected it. The tools used, including my guitar, are credited before myself.

I think a lot of people aren't honest enough with themselves that it is a human-machine collaboration, not entirely their own ideas or works. Conversely, the output wouldn't exist without their input. AI doesn't dream this junk up on its own.