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Music and porn are always at the forefront of consumer technology. But few of us want elevator music on tap, we basically already have that. Music is art, and we can churnout meaningless images all day and it will not change the feeling you get looking at, or listening to, a great work. For actual artists, there is a search for new timbres and textures that are unique and satisfying.
in light of the recent ed sheeran/marvin gaye sampling issues that recently wrapped up: imagine the boon for creators to have AI create a marvin gaye track, then chopping up/sampling the good bits of that AI track, and rearranging into a soulful rap track.

it wouldnt have to be a 10/10 AI execution. just good enough in spots to cut and paste.

rap producers would save $$$. plus, near-infinite sampling real estate opened up. the gaye estate loses their future income stream, and i would assume open up new fields of legal prosecution concerning 'likeness'.

id be more interested in what AI can do to old 70's standards like the O'Jays, Al Green....James Brown.....all of it.

Sampling real estate.

“We could have some kind of utopia where any kind of music you could imagine could be generated instantaneously—if you want to hear Lithuanian Metallica music, you’re going to just press a button,” Everett says. “But at the same time, if you have access to that, what does that mean for art?”

It means that recorded music loses almost all value.

It doesn’t affect live music at all. People are still going to see other people play bluegrass, rock and rock, and classical orchestral music.

It’s the end of the record industry, but not the end of records being made in traditional manners.

I’m not sure that I see what the problem is.

I don’t think so. There are startups now that want to buy young and burgeoning artists’ catalogs before they’ve even made a splash (potentially handicapping their futures). Why might they want all of that?

Can’t say I have a good feeling about it. But it doesn’t sound like the business end is going to wane. It’s just going to become worse to operate in. Battle against “the algorithm”. Horrible.

As I understand the industry these days, musicians make their money touring and selling merchandise rather than their recordings, which mostly make money for the labels.