Picture this: you're an indie musician who spent months writing a song about your mom's Alzheimer's. You upload it. Within a day, it's buried under 4,000 AI-generated lullabies from a spam operation that figured out how to game the algorithm. Streaming platforms were built on human curation signals, but AI can flood those signals with volume. That's not speculation—it's what happened with spam on other platforms, and there's no peer-reviewed evidence that AI music doesn't cause environmental or copyright damage either. We're running a live experiment with no guardrails. I get the appeal of AI tools for artists, but letting unlabeled, mass-produced tracks onto the same shelves as human work isn't innovation; it's infrastructure collapse. The platforms should be gatekeeping authenticity, not hosting an infinite supply of synthetic filler that drowns out the very people who make music worth streaming.

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