Bookmarked jazzandcoffee.substack.com Mar 12, 2026

AI Curates the Past. Great Artists Sabotage the Present.
"Suno and other generative AI music platforms treat outliers as noise to be filtered. Miles Davis heard them as curiosity doors to be unlocked. Suno iterates cheaply and randomly. Steely Dan iterated expensively and deliberately. Suno defines success as meeting a statistical average. Both the Dan and the Quintet defined success as defying the average to find the immortal."