I draw for a living, the other half of my living, and I've watched the image version of this happen in two years. The feeds filled, the rates fell, and the clients couldn't tell, and the ones who could didn't pay more. Nobody banned anything and nobody labelled anything, and the people who drew are mostly making coffee now. Music's next and it's asking the same polite question we asked.

Let me make the yes case at full strength, since the thread's a wake: every tool that made music cheaper got this thread. The drum machine, the sampler, the laptop. Each time the chart filled with the cheap thing and each time the cheap thing turned out to have people inside it making choices. The AI songs that win will have a person who prompted, edited, picked. That person is the artist. The chart will find them. It always has.