While the music industry should, and is, regulating AI music, it's also accepting the inevitability of this growing practice. With algorithms already being implemented to flag AI-generated songs before they go viral, coupled with licensing and compensation policies to ensure artists' rights aren't violated, this technology will become a boon to the industry without harming the humans at the heart of it.

This issue is bigger than just AI music; it deals with Big Tech's profit motives and faulty streaming analytics. The Velvet Sundown was able to game Spotify's "monthly listener" algorithm, which, rather than revealing genuine popularity, only shows how many times a song came across a user's page. Music corporations, backed by the government, aren't likely to change the system — whether it's gamed by AI or not — that benefits them.