because a cowriter is a human lol
if you've ever watched a band or someone play along to a drum machine i feel like that is a fair analogy here. it's obviously "good" because it's keeping time impeccably, but there is always something that feels missing, inhuman, soulless.
i get the same vibe from the SW song. those words are not his, just because the mood and style is copied decently doesn't make it more believable
Yes, but that’s only where the idea came from. You’re creating an inaccurate scenario where SW just says, “write a Xmas song in the style of SW” and then releases exactly what comes out the other end. That’s not what happened.
Another example:
I’m at work and I have to write a letter to a difficult customer. So I give ChatGPT the details of the scenario and say I need a professional letter to the customer. ChatGPT gives me a sample that I ask it to alter slightly. Then after 3 or 4 tries (with guidance from my personal creativity) I get the basic structure that I’m happy with. But even then, I change the way X sentence is structured because it sounds too stiff and I want something more like me. Then I reword Y sentence because it doesn’t quite accurately convey the seriousness of the situation. Then I change the order that some of the thoughts come in.
By the time I finish, I have taken the half-formed lump of clay that AI gave me and turned it into something that is uniquely my own. Then I sign it.
That is now MY letter. And CEOs have been doing this with secretaries for a century.
COULD AI be abused to the point where the person is no longer actually creating? Sure. But I repeat “…it’s really just a question of your honesty…” Neil Peart had it right all along and this is no different. A person who is actually creative won’t be satisfied with letting AI do it for them. They will get ideas that will spark a genesis of their own creativity.