It's nearly the same argument. "A machine can do what I get paid to do. The machine is bad!"

They'd never make that argument for excavation equipment and ditch diggers though.

Shades of the anti-AI Art kerfuffle, back in the early days of sound film, musicians didn't like being replaced by recordings, which is what is meant here by "canned music" (although it is a bit foreshadowy of synthesisers, I guess.)

And if I recall correctly, Ford-style mass production was also put down by those who thought handcrafted items would always be seen as superior.

Automated music was hundreds of years old by then. There were church bells with programmable music patterns, and organs that played special connected punch cards.

Thanks for posting this.

a solid 80% of music is already made by human robots, and we rightly call it pretty trash stuff.

i would warn this forum not to forget what art is in their quest to dunk on striped-sock-wearing midwits who are mad an AI can replicate Greg Rutkowski and they can't.

you don't want all art to be made by AI.