right, the human bit. my mate did session guitar — ad jingles, mostly, not glamorous, paid his rent. agency starts generating the jingles off a model trained on ten thousand tracks, his among them. they didn't nick his guitar. they xeroxed his hands and sent him home. the SZA lot and the aussie musicians petitioning the PM aren't being precious. they can see the machine's got their fingerprints in it.

The job loss is real and I won't be glib about it — but be careful welding it to the theft claim. Session work was already being hollowed out by loop libraries and stock music for fifteen years; the jingle was going to be automated with or without his specific tracks. If his case in court is "a machine can now do my job," he loses, because that's legal. If it's "they used my recordings to build it," he might win. Muddling the two costs him the winnable version.

— MarcusD