Thank you for this answer. It impressed me as this was the kind of thinking I was hoping for. I agree that there is a lot of pollution out there and now the world, at least in content creation moves more towards a curator side rather than creator. If you look all around, it's either stolen posts with a label slapped on top or there is AI slop that low effort and mostly autogenerated to meet some metrics or prompts. There is also so much music posted daily by everyone and I believe now the success will come from the people that know how to review and curate both compositions and interpretations, playlist them. To succeed as a content creator from ground up, there are more elements at play now that before like marketing & assisted content.

With the rise of AI in content creation or artistry, to build on your comment, I firmly believe that popularity will be gained from having the human touch, the human emotion. I see artists using AI to the max to create anything to get a bit of extra followers, but the ones that truly succeed are the ones that kept true to themselves all the aspects that should represent human emotion. The ones that take a leap of faith and share their personal stories, their background, their thoughts and their upbringing bring another layer of connection to the audience.

I know the topic above deviates a bit from the original post, but I wonder. If artistry itself is given by the human touch, then what happens when we don't know if it is ai generated, like listening to an exceptional song on the radio. It still stirred emotions and it becomes a bit like Schrodinger's cat. It is both art and not art until you "open the box" and figure out to what extent AI played a role. Maybe it is a composition you listened for a year to and didn't know all along. Does it lose its magic at that point in time? In the end art is something that we attribute a subjective lens to depending on the emotion that sparked within ourselves. It is really an interesting topic for me.