AI Music Authenticity: Why Listener Trust Decides the Future
The real bottleneck is trust The usual framing — whether AI will take over music — misses the mechanism behind the takeover question entirely. A song is never just a waveform. It arrives with a claim about intent, effort, and identity. When people press play, they are not only asking whether the sound is good. They are asking, even if only unconsciously, whether the sound came from a person whose experience they can enter. ...