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Actually writing music and lyrics was starting to become a professional and commercial enterprise (to an extent, for some music) as soon as the printing press was introduced. But traditionally everyone who performed music or told stories (often the same thing) added a little (or not so little) bit of themself to their performance, intentionally and unintentionally. There wasn't such a strong binary between "creators" and "consumers" of artistic expression. All the more so in oral traditions before the printing press and before writing. In some ways, that's the very *opposite* of what one adds to a work by providing a prompt to a generative model. Often the most human aspect of art is the details. Play music for yourself and people around you, even if no one would care to pay for it. Write stories or tell them to people around you even if they aren't worth publishing. You don't have to be good at it. You don't need some special technology to do these things. You already can express things that are more "artistic" than anything out of a generative model. That's what makes you human.