Let me give you a real example. Last year, a guy named Ghostwriter made an AI song that sounded like Drake and The Weeknd. It went viral on streaming platforms before they pulled it down. Here's the thing—Universal Music Group had to fight to get that track removed, and it still racked up millions of streams first. That's money that would've gone to actual artists, gone to a guy who just typed prompts.
I hear what you're saying about jobs, mbali, but it's bigger than that. It's about what music even means. When I put on a song, I'm connecting with another human's experience. AI doesn't have experiences. It just mimics patterns from stolen work.
Streaming platforms already pay pennies per stream. Adding AI songs doesn't fix that—it makes it worse by dividing that tiny pie into even smaller pieces. Human artists can't compete with infinite AI output. So either we protect real music, or we let the algorithm eat itself.
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