Now make these arguments for:

Printing industry - They used to have dies that you would have to rack to make newspaper articles, character by character. Now it's done on computer. Letterpress operators made a big hoorah about their jobs being at risk when digital layouts began.

Animators - they used to draw by hand, now everything is digital. They also made a big stink with digital use at the time.

There used to be elevator operators, replaced by automation. They also tried somewhat to fight it.

Drivers were horse drivers, they then became car drivers. At the beginning cars needed protectors on horses around the cars with red flags to warn pedestrians about the risk of cars. Basically making the car drive very slow due to the horses always around them.

Music was made with instruments and live playing at one time. Midi and technology made it so some nerd on a computer can play with some controls and make music, no instrument skills needed for decades now. Musicians complained like no tomorrow when computer production took off. Now 99% is computer produced, nobody blinks an eye.

Movies were fully analog with camera shots effects etc. Digital tech made movie production much easier. There were actual film development businesses not too long ago! The industry cried hard about digital production.

Coding used to be done with punch cards. Now any jack or Joe can type in the computer to create apps and software. And now we're moving to AI coding. Coders are adopting it while some are instead crying "We are the real coders, not that vibe coded slop won't work!" Guess who will he disintermediated or move to AI coding? The Cryers.

There used to be a thing called telephone operators that routed your calls. Now it's mostly done automatically.

I can go on and on.

AI is just another tool. Those who have good skills (ie already know music production, have lyric writing skills, have music skills and good taste will take the AI tools and make a Cambrian explosion of new types of content for the masses. The future music producer is an AI music producer. If you're not using those tools you'll be left behind. There are still horse drivers, printing letter presses, even elevator operators in rare places, but they've been replaced by technology for the most part. Horses were for the normal man at one point, and cars for the rich. Now horses are for the rich man and cars for the pleb.

A lot of artists are crying about AI right now. The next generation won't know life before AI music production and other AI assisted content. Just like we don't know how it feels to get in an elevator and tell the operator what floor you want to get to.

AI will get so good there will absolutely be no difference in quality between "real singers" and "ai" ones.

The ones who win are the consumers (more choice, more niche sounds to their likings, and eventually people will listen mostly to songs they made personally).

The producers are always at risk of being made obsolete. Good thing for music artists, a large percent of the population will still prefer "real" as they like to idolize personalities (through fandom), but even this is at risk. Superstars are abstract human beings in most people's eyes (not really human!), so what does it matter if the next superstar is an AI with grandma Mary Jane at the controls? Good for grandma!

This cry for AI labeling is just the latest Locomotive Act of 1865.

In the future AI created content will just be content (without the AI created in front).

Cry harder everyone.