[nostrebored]

If you could distill what you were trying to make and describe each piece, making it uniquely yours, is the fact that it went from an f(intent) -> output a reason to treat it as derivative?

I'm not claiming that Suno is there yet, but assuming that it cannot get there seems strange to me, given that the anthology of music is pretty well represented digitally.

[viccis]

>is the fact that it went from an f(intent) -> output a reason to treat it as derivative

Absolutely. All generative AI output is, by definition, derivative.