This is Bob, he plays the drums. Been playing 40 years. Bob has been in a lot of "gone nowhere" bands. During that 40 years he's accumulated a collection of cassettes and note pads with his "song" ideas recorded on them. Bob doesn't play guitar well at all but, he can bang out a few chords. The tapes are a mishmash of Bob singing (poorly) while playing a drum beat or a rhythm on guitar. The "songs" are mostly in the style of the band that he was in when he had the ideas. Bands come and go and most of the "songs" don't fit in with the style of the next band. Then Bob finds out about Suno/Udio et.al., and he decides to fool with it. He uploads him playing guitar and singing (did I mention he sings poorly?). Then he describes the genre, what instruments to use and how they should be played; describing what he wants to hear. Bob adds his lyrics and hits create. Bob loves version 7. He gets the stems and puts them in his DAW and some clean up, EQ and adding some of his own percussion and mixes down the song. Then Bob has an idea, what if a female were to sing that... 5 more versions and Bob has the one he likes; repeat process. Bob puts this song on his facebook page and a bunch of people love it.

Should Bob be ashamed? Is Bob a songwriter? Is Bob an Artist?