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The honest answer to "will AI replace musicians" is that the jobs look stable and the pay does not. Here is what the labour data, the CISAC study and Ditto's artist survey actually say, and what we think follows.
AI
No. Is AI replacing musicians? The evidence says it is being used as an assistant: most producers who use AI use it to split stems and master, very few generate whole songs, and the most celebrated AI-assisted record of recent years used it to clean up a recording. The real pressure is on income from a flood of generated tracks, not on the musician's job.
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