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> Everyone could learn how to make these with a 10 minute youtube tutorial which flooded the market, independent of AI.

I remember back in the 90's a friend who had the same critique of EDM and Daft Punk.

After all, you have to do is learn how to write and play some catchy melodies on a keyboard, learn synthesizers, samplers and sound generation, percussion patterns, and use a DAW.

Is it much easier to self produce Lo-Fi now than it would've been in 1995? Sure, but that's true of music in general. But one isn't going to be able to produce a song similar to what GameChops puts out in 10 mins, even if you are an expert.

That AI is making it hard to have a decent signal-to-noise ratio in Spotify isn't doesn't mean the genre is dead.