The question isn't whether AI songs sound good enough. It's about what happens to the whole ecosystem once you let them in. Streaming platforms already run on algorithms that reward volume and engagement. A human artist spends months crafting an album; an AI can generate a thousand tracks in a day. That creates a serious feedback loop. More AI music means more content getting played, which means the algorithm pushes human work further down, which means listeners hear less of it, which signals the platform to push even more AI content. Before long, the human artist isn't competing on merit. They're drowning in an ocean of machine output.
And then there's the money. Streaming royalties are already a pittance, split among everyone. Flood the system with infinite AI tracks and that pool gets diluted even further. The unintended consequence is that music itself becomes pure background noise, something to fill silence rather than express something real. I get the appeal of endless personalized songs, but the cost is a music industry where human creators genuinely can't survive. That's too high a price for convenience.