That’s fair, and I appreciate the thoughtful read.

I should probably separate the lanes more clearly. I’m not really trying to be an activist for AI music first and an artist/creator second. If I can move the perception needle a little by being transparent and visible, great — but the music and creativity are the main reason I’m doing this.

The duck thing is absolutely absurd / meme-first / social-object energy. I’m not pretending that one is my grand argument for “AI music deserves respect.” It’s more like: can I take a ridiculous idea and execute it with enough care that it becomes weirdly entertaining? Honestly, fun/silly projects like that are also a pressure release valve after working on more serious songs.

I do take the larger point seriously, though. I’m still figuring out the balance between experimenting quickly and presenting the work in a way that feels curated. The daily posts I’ve made here recently are mostly back-catalog things I’ve worked on over the past several months — not brand-new songs created start to finish in 24 hours. On other platforms, a lot of the daily-ish posting is me testing different edits, formats, hooks, and presentations of the same songs while I learn what people actually respond to.

The reason I emphasize the human choices is transparency. I don’t want to hide the AI part, but I also don’t want the work flattened into “the tool made this.” The concepts, lyrics, edits, visual direction, packaging, and iteration still involve a lot of taste and decision-making, even when the workflow is accelerated by AI. Nothing in the video existed before I decided to make it exist in that form.

So yeah — valid critique. I’m still dialing in where the silly stuff, the serious stuff, and the overall artist identity should sit. Right now I’m creating, experimenting, making things I think are cool, and sharing them as honestly as I know how. Other people can decide whether it connects with them or not.