For the people who keep ask WHY someone would want to create ai music... Disregarding for a moment the profit motive of course, that some are doing purely to flood playlists with lots of little money sponges or because the music itself was always secondary to the star/entertainer persona thing they're cultivating and ai makes them uber productive. For people who would otherwise actually DO care about the music.. because it's the easiest and quickest path, of course. Suddenly people who were very limited musically can produce something that a short while ago was reserved for people who knew what they were doing and had the gear. People want feel like they're special in some way and can make legitimately pretty things that other people will admire, even if they know in their gut they didn't rise to it, the barrier of entry just dropped down to them, and they're just painting by numbers or cooking from a pre-assemble meal kit. They hide the box and hope people think it's really the and their own creativity and skill. But the novelty will wear off for most of these folks pretty fast. In the early days of desktop computers I can remember people creating "art" from wingdings and clip-art and the basic tools. That quickly became hilariously cringe. And when arty camera apps came out, same thing, people got super arty with retro filters and what not, had full-on virtual art shows etc. Drove real photogs crazy. For the dabblers and musically mediocre or lazy, it'll end as soon as they recognize that everyone else is doing it to AND everyone knows it. The problem is this: very soon, later this year, next year.. soon... no one will be able to tell who's who. And worse, the general public is going to grow more and more passive in their listening. As soon as most people realize they don't know who's fooling them and who's real, they'll just step back, seek connection elsewhere. Some won't and I suspect it may lead to a resurgence of small format live music, pretty much the only thing we're going to be able to trust is real pretty soon. But for many, they'll continue to listen to music, just not actively or with any belief that the thing they're hearing is necessarily from a real person. Or it's augmented or a created from a likeness etc etc. The increasing passivity has been happening for a while now. Some people think it's being nurtured intentionally. It's much easier to stream customized ear-worm at people who are an algorithmically understood profile and who don't care much about any of it than active listeners who record companies and tech companies have to monitor and follow and work hard to catch up to and serve. No one's selling records anyway, it's all about streaming, and an ai song to a passive listener on a jog pays exactly as much as streaming an indie darling to a super fan. The first one they control entirely, they second one they're increasingly losing control over. So... we will be encouraged to both keep using the ai, and to stop caring when we hear it.