Some current thoughts. Been seeing more and more AI-generated music infiltrate the music ecosystem. Giving prompts to an AI (who will then model their output from real creators’ work) feels like a race to the bottom. Modern tools are astounding, but imagine if a vehicle took you everywhere so you never used your capable legs, or you always outsourced your life decisions to Chat GPT. Your autonomy would ATROPHY. Why would one do that when making music, where the entire point is to express your humanity? Where the journey of making music IS the destination? I actively avoid AI in my music making for the same reason that I move my body each day… gotta use what you have or lose it.