Let's be honest about the most practical consequence here: if streaming platforms get flooded with AI songs, real musicians get buried. The platforms already pay fractions of a cent per stream. If labels and hobbyists can pump out infinite AI tracks at zero cost, they'll dominate playlists and recommendation algorithms. That's not a hypothetical—it's just math. Human artists, especially independent ones, will become invisible. And sure, some AI songs sound good. I get the appeal. But from a deontological perspective, we're violating the core deal of streaming: a human creates something, and a platform distributes it for fair compensation. When the creator is a algorithm, that deal collapses. The utilitarian math is bad too—millions of listeners lose access to new human voices, and the cultural landscape gets homogenized into whatever the training data already contained. Maybe there's room for AI as a tool. But as a flood of finished products? That's not innovation, that's extraction. We shouldn't let convenience erase the humans who actually make music worth streaming.

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