I guess this sounds obvious in retrospect, but this Reddit comment made it all crystal clear, vis a vis my active-creative listening thread:

 There’s a real movement of people making music with AI. But, there’s no one to listen to it yet.

There’s a good reason why – why listen to someone else’s music when you can easily make your own? If you like AI music, you’re making it, not listening; if you don’t, you’re doing neither.

Watching the Bleeding Verse saga unfold has shown me that while this is majority true, there is an increasing number of people to whom Spotify is pushing AI music on without alerting them (which, I’m not sure matters to me, frankly). And their first reaction as consumers might be: “I love this!” because it fits the kind of music they like to listen to. But when they find out somehow it is AI, then they feel a sort of self-revulsion, followed by anger at an apparent “deception” (I’m not sure it is one, since all of show business is inherently deception and misdirection – it’s what makes “magic” and “entertainment”), and then their reaction is a violent “I hate this!” and then there is the long edge of graph of people who come back around and finally admit, “I don’t care if this is AI, it slaps!”

I think naturally as more and more AI music is generated and listened to, and the good ones are discovered and shared, that this “i dont care – it slaps” attitude is going to be the one that will rapidly change and very suddenly prevail. I don’t think it means “human artists” are going to be going anywhere. Because it will always be human artists creating in these new domains and with these new tools. So nobody is going to be displaced. But attention and reward are absolutely going to be retooled and redistributed. But this is simply the way when you’re an artist chained to a technological system and medium of communication. Would you be better cutting out all out of your life entirely? Almost certainly. But then, how would I be able to write to you, and have you not respond?