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I am helping a multi platinum songwriter get his many thousands of unproduced songs produced so he can send the demos out and get more business. This guy understands that pro writers rarely have time to even consider developing finished quality demos when they are writing music every available moment when not traveling, touring as artists and working on other career activities. I played him a few of the tracks I have put together and he was positive they had to be humans. He hadn't really spent much time with music A.I. stuff, but all his promo stuff is A.I. including an exhaustive bio of all his placed songs, cowriters, and tracks and what they have cumulatively done. He has songs that have been covered in so many languages he can't keep track. He still has to go over any A.I. work, graphics, research etc. because there ARE errors, but it does a lot of heavy lifting that he has no time for. He then looks at final results, makes decisions and edits and it's done. A.I. music REQUIRES an artistic producer to make stuff true to the initial artist or writer's wishes. Most of these guys don't have the TIME (he has the money). A.I. is going to allow him to make a LOT more money PLUS get all his material out and also online making money. He still performs 20+ shows a month year round and is no spring chicken. He's been a friend of mine for a long time, so I am just helping him out as I do not have time to produce the stuff for him. I offered to do a couple songs to get him started, learn his process/goals/desires, then I will hand it back to him and he can pay someone else to do the lions share of work. I am only 320 songs into my own catalog and just switched it up to work on my oldest songs written as a TEEN and now they sound almost as good as my best stuff. I will have to go back and redo my earliest A.I. stuff as the tech has doubled in abilities since last September. It will double again of course, but I am having a blast revisiting songs I had long forgotten about. I also realize that most of my entire catalog was a lot better than I used to think. I am brutal on my own stuff because I have been surrounded by some of the greatest writers in history. I would put some of them up against anything ever written, outside of perhaps the best 100 songs ever which have both fame, marketing and being drilled into our heads our whole lives going for them. It is nearly impossible for most people to "hear" a great song the first time (or 3rd time). And few people hear anything not pushed by elite agendas that many times. It is why often your favorite songs by favorite artists are NOT their biggest hits. A.I. is already becoming standard, and REAL stuff with original writers will ALWAYS sound better than purely created A.I. stuff. All my music is based on my music, lyrics, melodies and vocal performance. I love casting voices, because it is like me in top voice when I was in my early 20s, or me singing as a female vocalist, but with my intonations, emphasis and cadence. A lot of my lyrics are wordy and must be sung in a specific way for them to work. To experiment, I tried asking A.I. to imply sing them and it was a trainwreck. But when it has my full vocal to track, it nails it. Then gives me flavors. No different than picking piano tone or how to mic your drums. All creative choices are possible once this stuff hits peak performance. But it STILL needs humans to make the tools work in a human way. I hear plenty of lyricists doing demos. It is a nice way for them to hear their work. But it is rarely as good as hearing a full composition processed with tools, at least not to discerning ears. But when you've never been able to do music, I do not begrudge any lyrics the fun of this creative outlet. If I were them, I would use it to pitch to artists who can play and sing and offer a cowrite on their take, then you have the best of both worlds. I would much rather consider a lyric I can hear works as a song rather than try to read it and get the same vibe. I have always written music first outside of a song idea or a hook line, then adjusted the melody and words to fit my track. I know lyricists doing that now with A.I. It is more challenging and productive both. Once you know it works as a song, separate it from A.I. and have a composer write a new melody and now it is a 100% human created song!