@Rosa Lee Sorry - long post coming....and I mean it all earnestly and with respect for you as a human. Thank you for your response--we are all learning as we go, and I can truly say that I am at the beginning of my songwriting/producing journey. It's been taking me quite a while to even write/produce my first song. I want to be transparent about the fact that I don't really know what I'm doing... Respectfully, I get pretty sad when I watch this video. One of the things that stands out most to me is what he says towards the beginning (and throughout), when he talks about how he used to collaborate with a friend for songwriting and struggling through how to add instrumentation to a basic chord progression. Suno has, as he stated, replaced the "people he used to have in the room....in the old days." Another thing about these "ideas" he is getting from Suno--all AI works as a speech/behavior prediction engine. It gives you versions of what it thinks you want. I don't believe it is actually possible for LLMs to create unique, original ideas (not that I'm assuming you think it does). I think this is reserved for human inspiration. It's a spiritual experience. Suno and other music generation AI platforms in essence are taking all recorded music to regurgitate a version of things already done. What I see with generative AI platforms overall is that their greatest "value" and draw is the fact that a user can do 2 main things: FIrst, it allows the user to skip much of the songwriting and arranging process (depending on your personal process).This takes so much effort out of struggling and working through instrumentation and new progression/melody ideas. It also allows folks who can't play those instruments (or don't have the ability/time to figure out parts like that on their own) to have it done for them in a matter of minutes. Even if it is re-recorded and tweaked later, the "work" has been largely done for the user by telling a computer to create "ideas" around what the user inputs or prompts.

@Rosa Lee thanks for your response!

Reviving this conversation a bit late....but I appreciate all of the responses so far. I've been thinking a lot about AI and its potential implications for the creative industry (not to mention, the natural resources it needs just to work, which are pretty terrifying). Adam Neely has a super interesting video about AI in music that is worth a watch for sure (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk). Before I begin my argument, I need to say that I've heard many of you who use Suno and similar tools say that you never use it in your actual music, just as an idea generator, and I want to acknowledge that! The truth is though, that many people do use this to generate and release most (if not all) of their music, flooding the market with content that is essentially an aggregate of all created music thus far. Soon, I believe it will need to be trained on more and more data which, ironically, will probably be it's own generated music. I often hear the arguments about it being just another technology advancement tool like the drum machine, computer, or auto-tune, and I understand the logic, but I have to disagree. This truly is a different technology. I think we have to separate digital "tools" from "generative" AI. Before generative tech, you could not necessarily prompt a MIDI controller or a DAW to create endless song ideas, suggest lyrical edits, or perform a part to perfection. Yes, these tools made it much easier to create these things, but they could never do it for us. So IMO, it's very different. One major concern of mine is how AI will accelerate the loneliness and isolation we are already experiencing. I don't love how much these tools are being leaned on more and more as "collaborators." This may not be a bad thing, but it feels kind of dystopian to me....I do believe there is something special and spiritual about collaborating with real humans. I must admit that I personally need to hear this as much as anyone else, as I don't collaborate as much as I'd like to.