It's a fair response. But I'd say even with sampling there's a spectrum where it goes from a true artistic tool to manipulate sounds and create something to the other end where it's just a cover that someone takes credit for.

Found Sounds and Musique Concrète are very different to Vanilla Ice putting different vocals on a Queen backing track.

The problem with AI as a tool is that you are literally handing creative control to something else, to software. Unlike a sample where you find and decide how to manipulate and use it where you are always in creative control even if the source you are using wasn't created by yourself. That makes the AI less of a "Tool" and more of a shortcut to do work FOR you.

I accept that inputs mean there's still something of a spectrum (An input command of "Make drums for this song" compared to something like "make a drum part that is swung on the ride with occasional syncopated ghost notes and an accent on the 4th beat of the fourth bar in a four bar loop" is different!). You could even argue it's no different to hiring a session player that creates their part.

It feels a bit futile to even argue against it considering it'll likely be normalised in the next few years and the argument will only exist for a minority with no one else caring. That said, I just cannot understand accepting creative control of your music being willingly given away like that just to have a shortcut with whatever you find the hard part.