Is Suno just a slop engine or a legitimate production tool

musician 1010benja has released 'semiramis' dream', a track created using an intensive, iterative workflow with the ai music generator suno. unlike typical 'slop' outputs, benja recorded original vocals and beats, fed them into suno, extracted the results, edited them in ableton, and repeated the cycle hundreds of times to achieve a polished sound. the final track displays few dead giveaways of its origins, leveraging the 'uncanniness' of processed vocals to fit the hyperpop aesthetic. this release highlights a shift where artists use ai models as instruments within a complex production chain rather than simple one-click generators, even as the artist acknowledges the ethical and environmental concerns surrounding the technology.