I can understand the points you've made and they are good ones. But you can listen to a lot of pop and rap songs and they built a song based upon what others had written before whether it be the lyric or the melody. There are a lot of songs out there in those genres which are like that and have been for decades. The other thing is, as you mentioned, you can send your hard earned money into one of numerous Nashville scam studios that will send back some generic idea of the vision they have for your music. Borrowing upon riffs done hundreds of times for other unsuspecting fools who just wanted to believe they had something to give the world musically. To me, what the music industry has done to aspiring artists for decades is now coming back to bite them. What goes around comes around. Of course they hate A.I. It takes a good majority of the industry and so called "professional opinions" and tosses it in the trash where it belongs and always did. It really is all in perspective. For those gifted with the ability to sing, play an instrument, compose music, etc., they have always had the market cornered. People who can just write lyrics, no matter how good they are, never stood a chance. People who can play but can't write lyrics, never stood a chance. People who can sing but can't play or write lyrics, never really stood a chance. But AI changes that. It makes it where someone lacking in one or more of those areas can make up for it. In the right perspective, use of modern technology is an instrument in itself. That's just my two cents on it.