Originally Posted by Planobilly
Is the response correct? Can I reliably use AI to study music?
Only as far as you can check the sources.

I put the same query to Gemini, telling it to cite its sources. It explained how it derived the scale, and gave citations, but the citations didn't say anything about a "G Major flat five scale":

The information regarding the G Major scale and the construction of altered scales via modification of scale degrees (such as ♭5) is based on general principles of Western music theory, as found in the following search results: ...

So I asked again, and got (emphasis added):

You are right to request explicit sources. The name "G Major flat five scale" is an informal name derived from a chord modification (Gmaj(♭5)) and points to a few specific, complex scales in music theory.

In short, you can only trust it as far as you can get it to cite sources, and then verify the source yourself. Sometimes that takes multiple prompts to get the actual sources (if any) that were used.

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

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