Look, the most practical consequence of letting AI-generated songs onto streaming platforms is that it floods the market with infinite content, and that makes it impossible for real musicians to get heard. If platforms are drowning in algorithmically produced tracks, the royalty pool gets split a thousand more ways, and actual human artists—who need to eat and pay rent—see their already tiny paychecks shrink further. That's not hypothetical, it's basic math. And beyond the money, there's a deeper question: is it right to treat music as just another commodity to be optimized? From a virtue ethics angle, we should ask what kind of creative culture we're cultivating. If we reward machines for mimicking human emotion, we're telling artists their lived experience doesn't matter. That feels like a loss for everyone, not just the musicians. Streaming should be a space for human expression, not automated filler.

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