Finite Creativity

Every artist is finite, as finite as their creativity,
the creativity they adapt and borrow from,
as the wealth they are paid for what they do.

Many artists can make a good living
repeating what they have done before
with variations on how it used sound
but for audiences and consumers
who are seeing it for the first time,
where the further the audience looks
for where such creativity started
the better they know when to stop expecting more.

Respect for where something starts
is a motive that holds, like a history.

What anyone who is creative
fears most is the mimic
who does what they do,
but with less finesse for an audience
who the original creative force
has no control over, who don't care
how far from the original the copy varies.

Welcome to the world of AI, where unsustainable fakes
make synthetic, short lived, audiences and poor policing thrives.