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In music that's more meant to "serve a purpose" (well yes, arguably all music serves a purpose), like dance music, I feel like it won't matter to many people. In dance music it's 50/50 for me too. I don't feel as invested in dance music as I used to, so I don't care as much as I did before, although on a general level I quite strongly oppose the whole idea of AI-generated music. I can't even imagine how little the average music consumer cares. There are loads of people to whom the artist might as well be a neural network churning out an endless stream of their favorite genre, and they'd be fine with it. They just simply wouldn't notice. If music is simply a utility to you, why would you care?
In my favorite genres, ambient and many subgenres of metal, I care much more. It's quite normal for me to "research" an artist and possibly their views for hours on end. That would obviously be quite a different thing in e.g. AI-generated black metal. One of the main tropes of the whole subgenre is misanthropy, but I can kind of feel that for at least 95% of BM listeners the music has to be human-made.
To me music, and all art, is about human expression. I tend to look at the person behind the art right after the art itself. Art is, and I hope will continue to be, an extension of the human(s) behind it.
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