Guess I’m making some sort of distinction between “the industry” and what kind of music I listen to… I’d agree. In the realm of commercial music, if the point of your band is to sell a lot of music… you’d probably use all the tools available. And it’s definitely a thing. Most modern pop artists on the radio have some other people write the music for them or at least the harmonics and general layout. Designed to appease and have some well tested standard chord progressions. They almost always do autotune. And it’s some self-reinforcing feedback cycle with the audience. We also have music genres which rely on (audible) autotune as some stylistic element. I more or less don’t consider it art anyway. There’s a select few songs of that kind I consider original and nice. Other than that it’s some mass-produced homogenous mainstream shit. So I just don’t know if I consider it a loss once it’s designed or sung by AI… It might happen, though.

All I can say is, the last music festival I attended had a vast majority of bands with more genuine music. A minimum of autotune, the audience generally doesn’t want playback either. No AI and a lot of declaring war against the fascists in politics 😁 I’m a bit too old to tell what teenagers listen to these days. But I suspect from the perspective of people who really like music on a level which surpasses mainstream radio… Idk… There still seems to be some broad majority who doesn’t like overproduced music. At least that’s the bubble I’m at.