Between the AI and Me: Analysing Listeners' Perspectives on AI- and Human-Composed Progressive Metal Music

This is a peer-reviewed research paper (arXiv preprint) analyzing human perceptions of AI vs human music composition, not a software project or usable tool. Zero stars and zero forks indicate no adoption as a reproducible artifact or codebase. The study contributes incrementally to the musicology and human-computer interaction literature by applying standard mixed-methods research to a specific domain (progressive metal), but offers no novel algorithmic contribution, infrastructure, or reusable component. The ProgGP model itself (a Transformer) is not novel. Frontier labs have no incentive to compete with or replicate this research artifact—it's a domain-specific user study, not a platform, service, or generalizable capability. Low frontier risk because this is purely academic research on perception, not a tool or system that affects AI capability deployment. Not defensible as a project because it has no users, no codebase to fork meaningfully, and no moat beyond the specific dataset/findings from this study cohort.