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How producers actually use AI is mostly unglamorous: splitting stems, mastering, EQ and cleanup, with full AI-generated songs a small minority. Tracklib's producer surveys put AI use at 25% in 2024 and 32% in 2025, LANDR found 87% of its community uses AI somewhere, and both agree the main job is assisting, not replacing. What the surveys say, why they disagree, and what it means for a beginner.
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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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Ditto Music's survey of 5,039 self-releasing artists found AI use rising with age, from 24% of 18–24s to 74% of over-55s. In the raw data, many of those older users are recent starters, which suggests AI is filling the engineer they never had. But the sample is Ditto's own customers, and Ditto sells AI mastering.
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