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Obviously, it's not perfect, and right now, for the best results, it would have to be re-recorded with a proper singer and instruments. But for some dude who has barely any experience in making music, I think it's amazing.

Also, I'm not a Christian; I just experimented in that area because I assumed that the quality bar would be lower in a more niche music genre. I made a custom gpt to generate the lyrics and structure and then just prompted it with, 'write me a song about jesus but don't use his name.'

If this is where it is now, where a person with no skills can make a song that wouldn't seem too out of place on a soundtrack for a Hallmark Channel movie, imagine where it's going to be in 5 years?

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In my opinion, you could've written a better song yourself by learning three chords on a guitar and producing something more original. Maybe just a confidence thing?

I'm not sure what people are trying to get out of this process, I'm not judging it per se, but what drives people to sit with generative AI, prompt it, and find satisfaction out of the prompting, I don't really know? Is it just the convenience that is appealing? I do understand that it might be fun to explore with the prompting, but I'm genuinely curious about your perspective?

I studied music for a long time, and what I really really gain satisfaction from is actually understanding my instrument, understanding the theory, and then producing music from that knowledge, but in a way, forgetting all the theory and just being myself with my instruments, with little effort.

Like I cannot imagine getting much satisfaction out of having a computer generate a song for me?

Likewise when using Google translate, I've studied Japanese for a long time, and there is a huge level of satisfaction out of actually having a conversation with someone in their native tongue as opposed to hacking through it with GT.

> Like I cannot imagine getting much satisfaction out of having a computer generate a song for me?

Everybody is different, but also prompt engineering can be a highly creative process. I'm at the same place you are where I get a lot of satisfaction out of sitting down with my guitar and creating something, whereas I really don't like prompting AI. But especially for somebody who doesn't have the music skill (which is a lot harder to acquire than most of us remember) if they are heavily involved in prompting and iterating, they could get immense satisfaction out of the process. If it was just "write me a song about Jesus" and that was the end, I don't think anybody would be satisfied, but it's (at least currently) way more involved than that.

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