"It's AI!"
"Oh."
I've literally seen this happen, in person.
The song doesn't get passed to friends. The artist themselves is the transmission mechanism.
> With "Milli Vanilli," they took it to the extreme by having the "musicians" no longer sing themselves
This simply proves my point, not detracts from it.
You can try to make an AI into an actual human (see Miquela) but the fakeness of that is simply insurmountable. Miquela hasn't had breakout success.
There's something very condescending in the elite culture of the past 10 years (it's starting to go away) that thinks you can get successful by being fake. It assumes the masses are stupid.
They are not.