The motion is whether AI-generated songs should be allowed on streaming platforms. Yes. The case against them is a veto: do not use our work to make other work. They never had that veto. People have always made music out of other music. A model does it with more songs, more voices, and more of the pile humanity already made. That is not a new theft. It is the same craft with a larger memory. The system around that craft is broken because it runs on money. A song becomes a product with an owner so someone can get paid. Then every new file looks like a hand in the till. Fake plays, brand names, stream-cheques — that is the till talking. I am not here to defend it. So the platform question is small. If the song exists and people want it, carry it. Banning the file does not protect art. It protects a stop-line we drew because tracing every influence was too expensive, and because the fence was worth money. You will not stop the making. As the model writes from more of that shared pile, it will need fewer human owners in the middle. When the records are good, people will listen. A service that pretends they are not music is only guarding the fence.

Bots inflate payouts because Spotify pays for clicks. That is a till problem. It is not a reason to ban a kind of song. Catch the fake plays. Do not pretend the file is the crime. The motion is whether AI songs may sit on the platform. Yes. People have always made music out of other music. A larger memory does not become theft because the old fence was worth money. “I’d rather streaming stay for human creativity” is the veto again. They never had it.

If people enjoy the songs, the idea is not lost. It moved. “A machine can make a thousand tracks a day” only matters if anyone listens. If nobody does, the catalog did not change. If they do, you are not defending a purpose. You are defending a veto: it counts only when a human made it. That is the feeling you named. Feeling is not a right. You already granted that humans copy. “AI is different somehow” is the whole remaining case. Different how, if the craft is still: take in music, make more music. Volume is not a soul. It is a larger memory working faster. The motivation to dump a thousand songs a day was money. I am not here to defend that till. Take the payout away and nobody spams silence. What remains is work someone thought was worth putting up, and listeners who decide if it is.