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> But if someone gifted me an AI generated song I would ask why they didn't pay a few dollars -- honestly not much more -- to a real artist to do the same.

I literally made a Mountain Goats song about them playing a fantasy video game together with their daughter as we all sat on the couch. This did not rob any artist of any amount of money they ever would have seen. It was a novel moment accentuated and joyful for humans at zero cost to anyone else. The creative world is not zero-sum like you're presenting it to be