The Death of Art: AI Is Smothering Creativity
The Death of Art: How AI Is Smothering Creativity By Elliot Graves Let’s be blunt: AI-generated music isn’t progress—it’s artistic erosion. A slow, creeping replacement of human creativity with algorithmic mimicry, dressed up as innovation. And yet, there are those—like Mason Steele—who cheer as the soul of entertainment is stripped away, replaced with data-fed “perfection” that lacks even a shred of human grit. For centuries, music has been shaped by passion, struggle, and triumph. It’s messy. It’s flawed. That’s what makes it powerful. AI doesn’t understand heartbreak. It doesn’t know what it’s like to pour everything into a song and wonder if the world will care. It just crunches numbers, smooths out imperfections, and spits out something inoffensive enough to trend. And let’s talk about storytelling. AI doesn’t tell stories—it assembles them. Music used to be about experience, emotions too raw to put into words but somehow captured in sound. AI-generated songs feel like echoes of something familiar, stripped of the pain and brilliance that make great art truly unforgettable. The defenders of AI entertainment argue that it eliminates distraction, removing politics and social messaging from music. What they fail to understand is that art is disruption. Music has always been a vehicle for protest, change, and revelation. Stripping away the message doesn’t make it purer—it makes it hollow. So, while some celebrate AI’s rise as a new golden age, I see it for what it is: the commodification of creativity, the sterilization of expression. Because no matter how seamless the melodies, how perfect the harmonies—if there’s no human behind it, then it’s not art. It’s noise.