The other side will say AI songs are just more content, more variety, and artists get nothing anyway from streaming. But that misses the whole point. This isn't about quantity or even royalties. It's about what music means to us as humans. When you stream a song, you're connecting with another person's experience. AI has no experience. It's just pattern matching. Allowing AI-generated songs on the same platforms as human artists drowns out real voices in a flood of fake ones. It also creates a fairness problem: AI can pump out thousands of tracks overnight, making it nearly impossible for a human musician to compete. Is that right? From a utilitarian view, it might maximize cheap entertainment. But from a deontological perspective, it deceives listeners who assume a song came from a human heart. Virtue ethics asks what kind of music culture we're building. We're choosing noise over meaning. Streaming platforms should stay human spaces.
02:32 PM