> where all the musicians live, and they have no other place to go, only disconnect.
No actually. Those musicians are free to continue making whatever music that they want and can refuse to listen to the AI music if they dont want to.
The fact that 2 other, unrelated 3rd parties both like to make AI music and listen to AI music is not the musicians area of control here. They do not get to decide what other people like to listen to or make.
> free to continue making whatever music that they want
Never said they weren't.
> can refuse to listen to the AI music if they don't want to
A musician can be a listener, indeed. If you believe a listener has this freedom and will keep it, you're most probably mistaken. No one besides musicians and discerning, ideologically relentless listeners is interested in making NN-generated music distinguishable and supporting the right of filtering it. The goal is to supplant one with the other.
> The fact that 2 other, unrelated 3rd parties both like to make AI music and listen to AI music…
Listeners is not an unrelated party to a musician. They form a vital symbiosis. And it's a zero-sum game, as listener's attention is a limited resource.
> They do not get to decide what other people like to listen to or make.
This is an unrelated point. Who decides what is a separate topic.
The crux of the issue is that we have two types of superficially similar product which are in fact substantially different (hope this does not require clarification) and incomparable in terms of resources necessary for their creation. This begets unprecedented power imbalance and incentives for deceit, biased legislation and other moves to solidify this situation.
People are doing it on the server where all the musicians live, and they have no other place to go, only disconnect.