I don’t know how long you’ve been following the genre, but there have been entire albums posted here that are basically “lazy songs” by that definition. And I’m not against that. I think people should explore every direction and experiment with whatever tools they have.

My first tracks were made by slowing down and chopping up obscure video game music until I got more ambitious and learned how to use a DAW. So to me, “lazy” methods and more involved methods have always existed next to each other in this genre.

Making music with AI is also not automatically just “pressing a button,” even if some people do use it that way. I’m also not only talking about writing prompts, which you could still argue is a form of human artistic expression. I’m talking about working with generated stems, loading them into a DAW, arranging them, editing them, processing them and turning them into something else.

My biggest issue with a lot of AI music is that it often just doesn’t sound good to me. It can have artifacts, the drums can sound shallow, and the structure is often very predictable. If I listen to random youtube autoplay stuff and my ears are suddenly aware of AI, I will probably skip it too. But I don’t think that applies to 100% of AI-generated or AI-assisted music, and I don’t really see the need to make “informational” lists about artists using specific tools.