[Capricorn2481]

No that is the reason. The fact that AI music can be created, marketed, and flooded off of prompts that, themselves, can be automated, is remarkably unhealthy for the music space. And saying the music industry is fucked anyway is not very convincing.

> or a "stunt performer" pretending to be an artist, which includes all people who can't sing in tune without autotune

Really? Sorry but I don't consider people like that stunt musicians. There's a wide range of human expression to be shared beyond singing technically well. A stunt musician would be someone doing nothing. Like prompting an AI.

Since you're keen on gatekeeping, I'm a musician. My whole family is. You may very well play music, but are you a musician? Your comment is genuinely more offended with auto tune than AI music. I can't imagine working myself to that conclusion, and I think that says a lot about your values, and they're not in line with any musician I know. They're more in line with a developer or A&R