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And there have been a lot of discussions over the decades over artists/"aritists" who overly sampled a song and became orders of magnitude bigger than the original artist.
Its a balancing act. Most people aren't going to get too annoyed if someone uses generative AI to help build a backing track or a beat to go with their song.
The issue is that so much of this slop is "make a song like this" from scratch. And while there is a lot to be said about manufactured acts and the role of major labels... one of the few good things about spotify et al destroying the music industry is that it has become so much easier for smaller independent artists to get a foothold.
And all this does is add more slop to push them back out. And the difficulties with detecting slop will mean people will be a lot less likely to ever check out a smaller band when they can instead listen to whatever the latest major act that beyonce et al vouched for is.