Originally Posted by Notes Norton
You can say that about quite a few songwriters and bands. Through my years of performing in cover bands, I've noticed a lot of bands and single artists doing 3 versions of the same song. 3 seems to be the magic number.
Yep, I won't disagree about this.

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But when we write pop music, are we really doing something new, or a mash-up of more than one old thing?
Very little of what we do is original. Even things that are new - like inventions and discoveries - are found to develop in parallel in separate places.

But something that people can do - that AI can't - is understand which of their decisions are derivative, and which are not. For example, you can write a song in the style of another song, and know which elements can be safely retained as non-infringing (because they may be common across the genre) vs. things that need to be modified, because they hew too closely to the original.

AI can't currently do that, because the underlying technologies don't have a way to evaluate what they are "creating". There's no self awareness of either the process, or understanding of how to evaluate the results.

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?