And in a way, it’s hard to answer that because there’s so many opinions. Plus, there’s this whole “AI is a tool” when it’s literally decimating jobs, there’s ethics, there’s the sustainability aspect, well, a lot of AI companies are, well, just read anything semi-negative on the news, and it should paint a decent enough picture for you of what the state of the world is in. But anyway, when it comes to art and consuming content in general, more and more of it is AI.
You probably keep seeing AI-generated news articles, scroll on LinkedIn, so much AI slop on there, and on TikTok, you get the picture. But yeah, it’s in music and movies now too, and as you know, music is good for the soul, but if the human element is lost, well, is it still good for the soul? Probably not, though it might just depend on the person.
But AI is being crammed more and more into platforms, obviously, so people can get rich quickly; it’s a gold rush right now. But that’s what makes this such an uncomfortable topic. It’s not only about liking or disliking new technology. It’s about what gets lost when convenience starts replacing craft. And right now, that loss is getting easier to spot.
People Love Art Because it Comes from a Person
Well, People don’t only love songs because they sound nice. They love them because they come from somewhere. A person wrote that lyric. A person felt that fear, heartbreak, rage for hating someone, grief, anger, or relief. A person made choices inside that song that came from lived experience, not from pattern prediction. Like when you’re going through a breakup, you play music that resonates with you how you feel, right?
When you’re happy, or in love, you do the same, right? Songs just do that, like No Time to Die hits the way it does because of the sheer rawness. It just makes you feel human; it’s like the singer, the person on the other side, just gets it. But Ai can’t carry that. Like, sure, maybe a fun poppy beat, but there’s no rawness there.
Spotify and AI Music are Already Raising Red Flags
Maybe while you’re reading this, you’re listening to a song, and you have no idea that it’s even AI. Like art and articles, well, those can be apart, but with music? It’s a little more challenging. This isn’t some far-off future problem anymore. It’s already happening. Deezer has said fully AI-generated tracks made up 39% of daily uploads by early 2026, which is wild all on its own, and it also said a huge share of streams tied to that content were fake or bot-driven.
That means the issue isn’t only artistic, it’s financial too. Again, it’s that gold rush that was mentioned. And yeah, then there’s the song-generator side of it. Tools like Suno and Udio made it incredibly easy to generate full songs from prompts. This is only going to get worse.
So, Should You Support AI Creators?
Support for AI-made work gets a lot harder to justify when that work is replacing artists, muddying streaming platforms, pulling money away from real musicians, or being built on material that may have been taken without proper permission. If AI is being used as a tool by a real creator, that’s one conversation. If it’s being used to flood the market with fake art and cheaper substitutes for human work, that’s a very different one.
