Interesting piece on Financial Times intended to prepare the music industry for the coming wave of AI slop:

That’s not so bad for streaming platforms — they are incentivised to maximise playing time, and are less concerned about who’s being listened to. But it may well marginalise existing music companies and human artists, especially where content is not particularly original, or where the fan community is less engaged. 

The music industry will need to be proactive. Labels may try to create their own AI artists.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that’s already happening…

The other thing I want to highlight here, based on the line about “human artists” being marginalized, is that people using AI as part of their creative process *are also* “human artists.” Just because we choose one tool over another does not make us not still humans expressing creativity through the technologies made available to us in the market. It should not be an us-vs-them mentality. It should instead be a let’s look at where this is going, what we can do with it, and how should it best function in our ideal future kind of conversation…