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Hey @grok what’s the percentage of kids still learning to read and write music.
100k+ songs uploaded daily.
60% of streams are 5+ years old.
AI now half of some uploads. Most people can’t tell it from human.
Streaming stalled. Indies broke. Charts fake.
Record industry revenue. Worse product.
AI didn’t kill music. It just turned the business model into a race to the bottom where the machines have infinite output and human artists have finite time.
Music was never meant to be content sludge optimized for retention metrics. It was meant to carry the weight of being alive.
KING GRAINT retweeted
A man becomes a different kind of rich when he realizes the people waiting for him at home are worth more than anything he could buy.
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The modern music industry doesn’t want musicians. It wants low-cost content that algorithms and bots can push. Real talent is a liability now.
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Spotify just wiped 50 million AI tracks this year and called it “slop.”
Fifty. Million.
They’re not even hiding it anymore. The whole platform is just flooded with garbage that gets auto-generated and dumped into playlists while actual people who make music get buried under it. Labels are cutting staff, mid-level tours are dying, and half these songs are trained on catalogs from people who are dead. Goldman is out here saying the industry’s gonna hit $56 billion while basically admitting the actual artists get squeezed out of the money.
At this point new music isn’t really being written. It’s just being spat out, optimized to not get skipped, and uploaded by people who’ve never played anything in their life.
Are we watching human music die in real time or did it already die and nobody wanted to say it?