‘I feel like I’m at war’: are we losing the battle against machine-made music?
TL;DR
Despite outcry from musicians, AI slop is creeping into the charts as record labels scramble to adapt to a new normal where hits can be made at the click of a button This year, the battle for song of the summer has been eclipsed by a much more complicated – some would even say disturbing – debate. That’s because we find ourselves asking not “What’s the song of the summer? ” but rather “Is the song of the summer even real?
Nauti's Take
The production barrier is falling, and for creators without a studio budget that is a genuine opportunity to be heard at all. The problem is disclosure: when 35 million streams say nothing about whether a human sang, listeners and rights holders both lose their bearings.
Labels with clean licensing terms stand to gain, while session musicians and anyone whose voice becomes training data take the pressure.
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