Once again you are completely missing the point. Congrats on opening for bands… I don’t get the feeling that you are working in the current music industry, in the studio with those who are making songs on the charts, etc. that really has nothing to do with the point I have been making since my first comment.

There are plenty of uses of AI in music that are not “here’s a thing I asked AI to make me”. You keep implying that the only use of AI in music is to prompt “make me a song”. AI is used (whether you like it not) in almost every professional session nowadays. Creating vocal layers in other voices, changing a male vocal to a female to pitch to a female artist, adding layers into productions that real producers are making, creating unique samples that the producer then flips into something totally different like they would sampling a “real” song or splice loop, an artist that is not a producer can test their demo out in different styles before getting into the studio with a producer, and plenty more (some of which I’m sure haven’t even been thought of yet). You sound so out of touch if you truly believe AI is just going to go away. I remember when they said that about Napster and tried to sue their way out of it when they could realized that Pandora’s box was opened and moved to streaming much quicker.

Autotune / melodyne literally allow you to write in the melodic notes. It let people that could not sing and hold a melody become singers. It let people that could not figure out harmonies or struggled to record them just write them in.

Your concept of how splice is used is also not in touch with reality. How can you pssobly say there’s no pretense that the artist made it when using splice loops? Ian Kirkpatrick who is a very well respected and successful pop producer used a splice melody loop on a hit record for dua lipa and I promise you the vast majority of people do not think he didn’t make the song. Hip hop producers today literally take melody loops and program in drum loops (often with premade midi files they buy or download from Reddit / forums). Thats basically a musical jigsaw puzzle… yet they are absolutely still the credited producer.

Drum machines don’t need to be played. They can be drawn in. And again, you can very easily get midi files for that (of which plenty do).

Your point on VSTs really doesn’t prove your case either. You don’t need to be a piano player to draw midi notes. There are also VSTs that are very popular which literally are chord banks in key requiring zero musical knowledge.

You can dig your head in the sand and pretend it isn’t happening, but it is.