{"ID":2888287,"CreatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23365","arxiv_id":"2507.23365","title":"\"I made this (sort of)\": Negotiating authorship, confronting fraudulence, and exploring new musical spaces with prompt-based AI music generation","abstract":"I reflect on my experience creating two music albums centered on state-of-the-art prompt-based AI music generation platforms. The first album explicitly poses the question: What happens when I collide my junk mail with these platforms? The second album is a direct response to the first, and toys with the inability of state-of-the-art prompt-based AI music generation platforms to generate music that is not ``practiced'', ``polished'', and ``produced''. I seed a large language model (LLM) with information about these albums and have it interview me, which results in the exploration of several deeper questions: To what extent am I the author? Where am I in the resulting music? How is my musical identity changing as I am faced with machines that are in some ways far more talented than I? What new musical spaces does my work open, for me or anyone/thing else? I conclude by reflecting on my reflections, as well as LLM-mediated self-reflection as method.","short_abstract":"I reflect on my experience creating two music albums centered on state-of-the-art prompt-based AI music generation platforms. The first album explicitly poses the question: What happens when I collide my junk mail with these platforms? The second album is a direct response to the first, and toys with the inability of s...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23365","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.23365v1","authors":"[\"Bob L. T. Sturm\"]","published":"2025-07-31T09:25:55Z","proceeding":"cs.SD","tasks":"[\"cs.SD\",\"cs.AI\",\"eess.AS\"]","methods":"[\"Large Language Model\",\"Language Model\",\"LoRA\"]","has_code":false}