The other side usually frames this as "AI is just another tool," but that misses the whole point. A tool like a synthesizer still needs a human making choices, pouring in experience and feeling. AI doesn't do that — it scrapes existing music and rearranges it. And we're not talking about a few novelty tracks. We're talking about a flood. Streaming platforms are already brutal for working artists; the per-stream payout is tiny. Now imagine that pie being sliced into millions more pieces by algorithm-generated filler. Real musicians in cities like mine — the ones grinding in small venues, producing on their laptops — they get buried under an endless wave of content that costs nothing to make and has no soul behind it. Allowing AI songs on these platforms doesn't expand creativity, it commodifies it. It tells listeners that music is just output, not expression. If we let this slide, we're not embracing the future, we're just starving the humans who actually make it worth listening to.

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