But what if you like to listen to a specific genre? Say electo-swing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro_swing)
There isn't that much good electro-swing made by humans, and not much new coming out. One can easily consume it all and want to hear some new tunes in that genre, and maybe AI can help with that.
I guess we've had different experiences then, because youtube has had no problem showing me huge amounts of electro-swing in the past (before AI-generated music was a thing). I've somewhat moved on from that genre though
If you’re really listening to AI electro-swing then… I just have no words.
Neither does the electro-swing, probably
Many people just play music as background noise. Having a bland, generic, vanilla AI music playlist is a bonus.
I think that's probably the crux of where there's conflict here. There was a time in my life where I definitely much more emotionally invested in the music listened to. I thought I'd definitely kill myself if I ever went deaf. But these days, I really just have it for background noise when I'm working, exercising, doing chores. And it's all just electronic stuff – I don't like vocals (unless they're sufficiently unintelligible so they don't become a distraction to my thinking). At the end of the day, it's just some beats to me. AI or not.
I can recommend you to spend some free time to really listen to music again, Beethoven, Hendrix, Gorillaz, Slayer, Sub Focus, whatever floats your boats your boat. Your brain is wired to remember and sing along to music around a campfire, and will pump you full of exquisite drugs if you really give into it, ideally together with other people. Alleviates stress and makes you happy.
Music demoted to just background noise is unrelated to the social concept of music, which is so ingrained in our nature that we all can’t escape it. And that to me is also why I agree with OP—AI-generated music is fundamentally treason to our species.
Have an opposition to the 7 distributal cents of the Spotify subscription going to a lab instead of Taylor.
(Assuming the lab didn't license anything fairly.)