Originally Posted by JAPOV
Originally Posted by Gregory Watton
It’s predicting patterns and generating something new from those patterns.


Originally Posted by Gregory Watton
And plagiarism isn’t really how these systems work. They’re trained to recognize patterns in music and language, not to store and reassemble existing songs.

Bull$hit, and Bull$hit!

The reason genres all sound alike is because of "human pattern recognition".
The Nashville Numbers System for example. Without that recognition there wouldn't be genres.

AI (a computer) cannot create anything new. Without pattern recognition, AI couldn't "simulate" music. All AI can do is copy and rearrange patterns. Otherwise, AI music would just sound random and atonal.

If that works for you, fine.

But, you're not fooling me.

Tony, I think we actually agree on part of this.

Music absolutely relies on pattern recognition. Genres exist because humans recognize and reuse musical patterns — chord movements, rhythm structures, lyrical phrasing, instrumentation, and so on.

Songwriters do this constantly. The Nashville Number System itself is literally a way of describing musical patterns.

AI works in a similar way mathematically. It learns patterns and uses them to generate new combinations of those patterns.

Humans do the same thing creatively — we absorb patterns from the music we grow up with and recombine them into something new.

The difference is that humans bring taste, emotion, intention, and direction to the process. AI by itself doesn’t decide what to make or why.

So the real creative driver is still the person using the tool.

Greg