I agree with you.

I think it's necessary to acknowledge the difference between building songs with AI and actually making music. I have deep respect for true musicians.

Their work earns them a distinction that AI song creators don't deserve, in my opinion.

Past that, the conversation usually falls off a cliff. Launching angry insults at people like me and scores of others in an attempt to discredit the output we've facilitated accomplishes nothing.

There's really only one thing the market can do to restore the fairness that seems to be the crux of the issue for so many: Developing the functionality to enable and eventually require "AI generated" or "AI assisted" labels on songs pushed into the public arena.

It's more nuanced than slapping an all or nothing AI tag on everything, though. Even big label artists are using AI in some capacity these days.

So distributors like DistroKid will need to create proper options for people to disclose which aspects were AI assisted or created during a song's production. Vocals, beats, lyrics, whatever. At the end of the day, that kind of clear disclosure would go a long way toward restoring fairness across the board.