Did you know that in 2023, AI-generated songs made up nearly 15% of all new uploads on some streaming platforms, yet those tracks generate almost nothing for actual human musicians? Let me define what I mean by AI-generated music: tracks created by algorithms with little to no human creative input. Streaming platforms are supposed to be marketplaces for human artistry, not dumping grounds for synthetic noise. When you let AI flood these spaces, you drown out real creators. It’s not about being anti-technology. It’s about protecting a system that already favors algorithms over artists. We’re seeing human musicians struggle to earn a living, and AI

I watched a buddy of mine spend six months writing an album, then get buried under a thousand AI tracks in the same week. That’s the reality now. Define what we mean by “your voice”—if you record a few seconds and let an algorithm stitch together a whole song, that’s not you expressing thoughts. It’s automation dressed up as creativity. Even if the lyrics are clean and you use your own voice, the core problem stays: streaming platforms become storage bins for synthetic content, not showcases for human effort. That floods the system and makes it harder for actual artists to get heard. So no, I don’t see how letting AI music in, even with your voice, solves anything. It just shifts the burden onto real creators who are already fighting for scraps.

Look at what happened with Spotify removing tens of thousands of tracks from the