> Yet when this comes round to something you’re good at (music, painting, literature, cooking, sport, …) you immediately recognize that there are in fact timeless elements

The gap between practitioners and bystanders is wide.

There was a "AI art or human art" quiz posted on HN [0]. I got > 90% right while the median score was 60%. I thought I was good at telling AI-generated content and was proud of myself.

Last week I listened to music on a random channel Youtube pushed to me for hours without realizing they're all AI-generated.

In turns out it's not that I have a human's soul or something. It's just that I practiced digital painting before but not music production.

[0]: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/how-did-you-do-on-the-ai-ar...