I wanted to compare it to putting an escalator on a mountain peak, but it may be more like pasting yourself into someone else's picture from the top and saying "I did it! I'm a mountain climber! "

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Does Tom Verlaine have the best singing voice? No. But he’s better than what any of these statistical models extrapolating from datasets will ever be. AI can’t replicate a creative soul striving to make the imagined real with determined self-honed means at hand.

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I’d also offer that as an adult it is much more difficult to do things that are hard and not be good at them immediately. Learning as you get older already gets harder and offloading your anxiety onto a machine is just another layer of sad.

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I’m an electronic musician and I’m told all the time that an AI is no different than a sequencer or DAW. Completely minimizing the years of craft, to say nothing of the unique human experiences, specific choices, and happy accidents that shapes a completed work.

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Art is not just a picture or a song or any other single thing - it is the culmination of a life lived and shaped with discipline and perseverance to a craft.

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