The other side will probably argue that AI songs are just more content, more creativity, more access for artists who can't afford studios. But that misses something fundamental. When you flood streaming platforms with AI-generated music, you're not just adding content—you're drowning out human artists who actually need the revenue to survive. Streaming payouts are already tiny. Every AI track that gets streamed takes a piece of that already-shrunken pie away from someone who poured their actual lived experience into a song. And let me ask the ethical question: is it right to let algorithms compete with human expression in the same marketplace? I don't think so. It's not about fearing technology. It's about protecting the economic and cultural space where human creativity can still thrive. If we let this slide now, we're telling every working musician that their craft is just a product to be optimized. That feels wrong on every ethical framework I know.

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