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From Alex Van Halen's Brothers:

"The thing about making music is that when you get to something really good, it doesn’t feel like you’ve created it, it feels more like you’ve found it—like that song or that lick has always existed and was just waiting for you to play it. It’s probably the same way with painting and poetry and every other art form—when you finally hit it, there’s just something about the sound or the look or whatever it is that feels meant to be. Think of the chord progression in “Jump” . . . can you imagine that melody not existing? It’s almost inconceivable. But it’s torture along the way. You’re groping in the dark. As inevitable as a great song feels, that’s how ««sure and frustrated you feel until you get there."

[Creating art and music with AI is a matter of finding. But there are two kinds of finds: one is which it presents itself to you while you're in a mindset of a craft, and one where you're just running permutations and finding the one that "wins". The latter is more a form of gambling. Very often after I've generated something I like, I actually do feel like I've created it, when I really haven't done much as a craft].