Lots of art techniques-- e.g. a basic set of shapes to help draw heads with correct proportions-- are formulaic. That doesn't make them any less artistic than s

Lots of art techniques-- e.g. a basic set of shapes to help draw heads with correct proportions-- are formulaic. That doesn't make them any less artistic than someone just throwing down marks based on their gut instinct. Music itself has been boiled down to a mathematical and artistic scaffolding that people have worked within for centuries. There are also a whole hell of a lot of creative decisions in between the sheet music and the finished product: instrumentation and all of the subtleties that go into it, recording itself is SO deep and heavily affects the outcome, everything that goes into post production to add all of the color and texture that makes it great... even within recording it, do you know how many hours people spend pouring over really great studio takes because they all land a little differently? This just takes what other people have already done and mushes it together. Is it interesting? Interesting as hell. Could it be useful to people making art? I'm a commercial artist in a different realm and generative AI has been very useful in generating specific references or doing some sort of concept test instead of sketching it out. It could be used as a tool to help make art, but is it making art? Not by any definition I think makes sense. The idea that this is just an incremental step in current commercial music production is only possible if you don't actually know what it takes to make it. The very same thing is true of video games, TV& movies, graphic design, etc. etc. etc.