Sorry, Gen-Z, but it is true. Those of us who are older are just grateful we grew up in a time-- musically-- that we did.

you are the author. nobody will know. the copyright office just assumes every name on the application
wrote the song. 2 - is the happening thing and today's youngsters will see this as normal and in 20 years writing and playing your own stuff may not even be a realistic possibility.

Read the other day 100K new songs on put on spotify etc every day. every 6 year old with an ipad is a producer now lol

recommend fraud.

A music producer with expertise as a player is not an "old man yelling at clouds".

Given the stuff you've posted here & in Musicians you should declare your own conflict of interest when it comes to these technologies.

and it lowers my blood pressure,

talking about.

AI cripples them. Quickly makes them dependent on a software crutch.

And to deny that reality, AI companies have engaged in a years-long con game to try to convince the public that AI actually makes people creative, that it "democratizes creativity." And they've also tried to stigmatize real artists - especially the professionals making money from carefully honed skills - as "gatekeepers" trying unfairly to keep every non-artist from "expressing their creativity" by giving a brief prompt to an AI model trained on all the copyrighted work the AI companies could steal.

Sadly, some people are gullible and/or vain enough to fall for that BS, and they flood the internet with what they try to claim as "their" creations, when they no more made what was AI-generated than they cooked a meal or sewed a clothing item they ordered.

I've seen people on X argue that they should be sympathized with when they generate AI slop because their parents didn't buy them guitars or other instruments when they were young, so all they're doing is using a new tool to catch up with all those privileged musicians who actually learned to play music. That's the democratization argument: "How dare artists have skills I don't have? I'll show them I'm just as creative with AI!"

The AI bros are offering us a world where everyone can pretend to create art, though they really can't. Pretend to write well, though they really can't. Pretend to code, though they really can't. Pretend to have knowledge they don't have. Pretend to socialize and say the right thing, as a bot they're talking to tells them how wonderful and perceptive they are. A world of wannabe geniuses caught in an AI-spun web set out by selfish, dishonest tech bros, many of them billionaires, who don't give a damn about either their deluded users or all the creatives harmed by AI companies stealing their work to enable competition against them.