Artificial intelligence is transforming music creation, but the real disruption isn’t creativity. It’s authorship, labor, and reshaping the systems that sustain artists.
The music industry has seen disruption before. Vinyl gave way to cassettes, CDs to Napster, downloads to streaming. Each shift rewired how the music industry distributes and monetizes songs but did not change what music fundamentally is or the fact that humans have always created it. Artificial intelligence doesn’t just change how music moves. It challenges who owns it and who gets paid for it.
