Is it? And that's no shade to the OPs project, it looks awesome.
But, frankly, it blows my mind that anyone with a passing interest in software hasn't seen AI as an incredible capability enhancer. How are they not doing everything they ever wanted?
So many people just sit around and complain about it. It's impossible for me to wrap my head around.
AI is quite literally the opposite of creativity. By definition. It's a pattern matcher and generates the most likely correct output based on the input. That's why it's incredibly useful at creating random tools and being a capability enhancer/output multiplier. But if you are having a dialogue with me, I don't want to hear what some AI has to say, since that's not 'you'.
This is why generative AI will never replace the creative types, as the inherit value of the product is in the artists' intent in making a piece and their unique execution of it. If at any part of the process AI was used (including if they were to e.g. use AI to fact check their anatomy, or for concepts) then they've tainted their work - it's no longer an output of themselves, it's got elements that have been genericized to what an AI considers correct / perfect.
Is there some kind of metaphysical tainting that takes place based on what happens inside of the "Hire-a-Drummer" black-box?
If I found out afterwards that your album's songs each had a single long recording of a drum track that you didn't make or refine at all, i'd be upset, because I thought the album was your creative output and that you carefully chose how it was constructed.
If you tell me upfront "the drums are a placeholder while I work on how to do them" then I can still enjoy the rest of the album, whether that part of the track is AI or not. But if you instead were to go in and take the time to carefully craft the drum track for the album, I don't care if AI was used to make the actual waveforms of the drum beats.
I think the problem is that, the more AI is used as a way to take shortcuts in your work, the less I can attribute to you, and the more it's just "correct" and thus generic. If you use AI as a tool to enable you to do creative work, then I think it's fine, I just want to know what I should judge as being 'you'.
Similar thing: Epic: The Musical is a concept album made in Logic Pro X. None of the instruments actually played or were recorded (at least by Jorge). But I enjoy the album on the basis of how Jorge's mind arranged the instruments, how the songs are written, the humans singing it and the emotions they put into their performance, etc. I don't think anyone thinks Jorge hired an orchestra nor sat there and played all those instruments himself.
So, when someone says that they like the trumpet in some part of a song in Epic, they're actually saying that they enjoy (A) the trumpet is there at that specific moment, and (B) and what decisions Jorge made for it - like its length, any effects added to create its sound profile, etc. This person probably subconsciously knows that Jorge did not actually blow into a trumpet to make that part of the song.
Is the issue, "hey, it might be AI, therefore on a metaphysical level I do not enjoy this as much as if I knew for certain that the drums were recorded by a real drummer"?
Or separately and without the complication of "Hire-a-Drummer", what about failing to disclose that drum tracks were hand-sequenced on a drum machine?
Or separately, is the issue that the drums were outsourced in the first place?
That is to say, if a human drummer is hired and the only instruction is to "add some dope beats to this track" and the drum tracks are used thereafter without any further refinement, does/should this affect the listener's perception?
This is what comes to mind reading this thread.
The poster above is complaining that the actual outputs are qualitatively "not creative". That they embody a statistical norm, while creative work has more unique variance.
These two viewpoints cannot be bridged by a flourish that ignores the fundamental difference of opinion...
Even if AI were entirely incapable of creativity, why would incorporating its output diminish the creativity of the human artist?
What about stock samples, preset drum-machine patterns, or clichéd drum parts played by a human drummer? Do these diminish the artist's creativity, and if so, why?
It's pure vibes, so buyer beware https://github.com/adriel/siri-remote-control This is "my" first Mac app, before this I'd only built PHP or web based apps. Pretty surprising how quick Claude could make it. I always thought Mac apps were really hard to build.