Look, I get the appeal of AI music—it's cheap, it's fast, and it can mimic any style you throw at it. But letting it flood streaming platforms is going to drown out the actual human artists who are already struggling to get paid. Streaming payouts are tiny as it is; now you want to split that pie with infinite, algorithm-generated tracks that cost nothing to produce? That's not innovation, that's just a race to the bottom. And beyond the money, there's a cultural cost. Music is about lived experience, about someone's actual heartbreak or joy. An AI churning out a "sad indie ballad" because it statistically analyzed thousands of sad ballads isn't expressing anything. It's just pattern-matching. If we let those songs sit side-by-side with real artists on the same playlists, we're telling listeners that authenticity doesn't matter. I'd rather streaming platforms be a place where human creativity gets a fair shot, not a landfill of synthetic filler.