Using AI to write music actually makes the final song way more boring and less creative than if you’d just written it yourself.
While AI is marketed as a tool to boost imagination, it often acts as a 'creative ceiling.' Musicians using generative tools tend to produce predictable, average melodies that lack the spark of purely human composition.
Help That Hurts: The Creativity Cost of Generative AI Ideation in Music Composition
SSRN · 6481538
Generative AI is transforming creative industries, particularly music, and raising questions about artistic practice and creator roles. Text-to-music systems can produce full songs from prompts, yet their effect on human creativity and quality is unclear. This paper analyzes how AI assistance shapes the creative process and outcomes in music. We conduct a randomized controlled trial with musically trained individuals who compose an original 15-second piano melody, assigning them to either an AI-