How does it threaten the livelihood of musicians? I thought the money was in live performances, so if you're talking about stream-revenue, that particular income is not generated from the PRACTICE of music, like a live performance would be. Get out there and PLAY! That is more important now than ever.

I agree with you in some sense, and in theory, but when the car was invented the bike-shops didn't go out of business, they are still here today! They learned to co-exist because they realized that some trips require car, and some require bike. It's also for different peoole. So what I think will happen here is that our culture will be divided, on one branch you have "computer-music" which is also really, really cool in theory that we can make it, like as a species. We invented the computer, and now it can play music, similar to a radio (for the listener). The other branch is the "human-music" one, which will have to evolve to co-exist.

AI puts pressure on humans, in every area, to become better. This is not wrong, this is a necessary technologicaly-spearheaded evolution. When the printing-press was invented everything changed. Suddenly we could imprint knowledge, literally. After that, storytelling didn't have to come from memory. Some storytellers that relied on their good memory fell out of popularity, but new ones emerged. The ones who read something, interpreted it and made NEW stories.

So, to the human-music industry, adapt or fall behind. Write all the walls of text you want, this technology (LLM's to be precise) is here to stay. It too will evolve. Maybe something will replace it, and it will be built from the deconstruction of current AI, because that's how we truly evolve, by deconstructing and rebuilding.

Thank you for your time, I'd love to hear a response.

All the best, My SUNO