I've spent thousands of hours digging through obscure playlists, and I can always tell when a song was born from a human's sweat versus a prompt someone typed into a generator. That's the gut feeling, but here's the real kicker: AI slop is drowning out actual artists who can't compete with infinite, free, algorithm-optimized content. Streaming platforms are already brutal for working musicians. Allowing AI songs just turns them into a dumping ground for spam that no human ever felt. That's not innovation, that's a takeover. Keep them off.

Look, we both want real music to survive, and I actually agree with you that folk and country deserve way more attention. But that's exactly why AI songs will wreck everything you care about. A small-town folk singer already gets buried under thousands of new tracks every day. Add infinite AI-generated songs on top, and nobody will ever find them. The platform becomes pure noise, and the human stories behind folk and country disappear. If you value those genres, you should be fighting to keep the floodgates shut.

Picture this: you open a playlist called "Human Folk Gems," and three songs in, the algorithm slides in an AI track because it's cheaper to stream. Separate categories don't stop that. They just give the platform an excuse to bury human artists under a labeled pile of synthetic noise. If you actually want folk and country to survive, you don't build a second dumpster next to the stage. You keep AI off the platforms entirely. Your category idea is a compromise that only benefits the people selling the spam, not the musicians.