> Another issue, as I’ve pointed out in the past, is that these AI-generated songs are taking attention – and money – away from actual songwriters and artists

Sorry, no, I find this all to be a bit too precious by half - I don’t think country fans have the discerning musical taste that the author somehow expects here. Attention and money is “taken” away? No, dude, people are giving their money and their attention, willingly, eagerly even, to this “ai slop.”

People used to support “actual songwriters and artists” because they had no choice, there was no other source of music! Not because they thought there was something special and worthwhile about the songwriters and the artists themselves, by and large.

I don’t think you have any right to be ‘infuriated’ that your romantic ideals about how people consume entertainment didn’t get born out over time as technology shifts and the market follows.

The reality we’re all been shown is: most people simply do not care for authenticity, for ‘real’ or for what is true… they just want something that makes them feel the way they expect, and they aren’t interested in thinking about it any further than that.

Why should this be true literally everywhere else, but not country music?