Source: Ted Gioia
An AI-generated music label flooding the market with algorithmic jazz reveals the actual near-term threat to working musicians: not replacement of creativity, but commodification of catalog production at scale. When a company can release more "albums" in weeks than human jazz collectives produce in years, the economic floor for session work and mid-tier releases collapses not because the AI is good, but because it's cheap enough to saturate streaming platforms and warehouse inventory. This isn't about whether machines can make art—it's about whether the economics of music distribution still require human labor once you've solved the technical problem of generating plausible output.