Source: The Register: Biting the hand that feeds
Australia's record industry body has implemented a blanket exclusion of AI-generated music from chart eligibility, treating algorithmic composition as categorically ineligible. The move mirrors earlier industry gatekeeping—the "You Wouldn't Steal a Car" anti-piracy framing—but without the pretense of neutrality. It defends the chart as a human-only achievement metric rather than requiring disclosure or fair accounting. Legacy music bodies are weaponizing chart legitimacy as their final lever of cultural authority, even as streaming data and TikTok trends have already made charts obsolete as discovery mechanisms.