My view on AI, after using it for about 2 years now, is that AI allows creativity to flourish without having to have technical skill. Like having a team of writers helping to write a script. Automation moves from Manufacturing to the Arts. As an retiree from aerospace manufacturing, it sucks during the transition. The up side is that it lowers the training period for new contributors. If you can increase the pool of contributors, unrecognized talent will rise to the surface increasing overall quality. That’s what AI offers the Arts. Not just the movies.
It’s now easy to create a totally original song with AI by typing a few sentences. It will generate the lyrics and do the song in the style you specify.
It essentially will create a “demo” that can later be recorded with real instruments, and human voices, but still, composing the song takes very little effort.
Therefore, any new music that is generated, I will assume was composed by AI, until proven otherwise.
It’s over for songwriters.
Right, it enables creativity by removing the huge obstacle of needing to have technical skill. Along the lines of your script writer analogy, in the musical world you had studio musicians like the fabled Wrecking Crew whose expert skills could be used by a producer to realize his vision for a song. Now with AI, essentially everyone can have their own virtual Wrecking Crew (and team of songwriters).
The catch is that there’s a lot of creativity even in things that are considered strictly technical. And conversely a lot of creativity is informed and inspired by technical knowledge. So it seems doubtful they can be entirely separated. That’s why I think that at the highest levels AI won’t replace the human mind and experience. But it definitely is a powerful tool and will increase quality and quantity at the lower end of the creative realms, and the line between low and high end will move upward as AI improves.