AI is created by humans to utilize other tools generally also created by humans. The end result may be something that was not fully created by humans, but that does not make that output invalid. The tech involved here is not all that different from past tech that we grew to accept. For example, a player piano does not involve a human playing the music, but we accept it. A recording of a score is considered an acceptable stand-in an orchestra at venues that cannot otherwise afford an orchestra. The difference now is that the output is randomly generated. Much of that will be lousy, but some of it might actually be of interest to some listeners. As long as the output is labeled as having been created by AI, it should be allowed on streaming platforms. To block it entirely is, in the end, just another form of censorship. We'd be blocking the output for the lazy reason that a human didn't put the notes together in the way this human-created tool did. You might just as well argue that machine-assembled products should not be made available in stores as a human didn't create them. I suspect you'd try to argue that the machines had to be programmed to perform these repetitive actions and that the product they are building was created by humans, but the same could be said for AI music. The AI had to be programmed to do it and the output, as a result, could only happen because of human design at the outset.

I didn't realize that 15% of the songs out there are already AI. That speaks to my point. People must be listening to some of it or this option would just die on the vine. Its existence, in no way, limits the availability or viability of human music. That music is still there, still available for consumption. This is the same argument as trying to ban a specific TV network. Just change the channel. Choice is often the right answer. You can choose to listen to AI music or not listen to it. If a streaming service suddenly stated that all their music was AI-only, you could simply not reward them by not using their service. This only goes wrong if the AI music is not identified as such or, worse, is passed off as being human.

The songwriter is not prohibited from continuing to work on their song. The amount of AI songs in specific platform takes nothing away from that songwriter. Once they complete that song it will still have the same ability to either find an audience or not based on its merit -- as long as the AI music is labeled as such. The cream rises to the top. If people like the human song, they will rate is positively and it will move up the charts just as it always has if it is worthy to do so.