> it's important to remember that ML/LLM/etc can only re-arrange what's already been created. They're not really capable of generating anything novel Any music

> it's important to remember that ML/LLM/etc can only re-arrange what's already been created. They're not really capable of generating anything novel Any music that is completely novel is crap. All good music is inspired by, borrows from and outright steals from past music. “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn.” - TS Eliot An LLM may certainly be not as good as a human at creating music. But it's certainly capable of creating music that is either more novel or less novel than any arbitrary human composition. You just need randomness to create novel music, but to make it tasteful still requires a human.