The same argument was made in defense of Elements. This sure proved to be wrong then, it’s not gonna hold now either. Those kids are kids, not customers. They don’t pay for music, whether it’s one time licensing, subscription, or AI. They’ll keep on not paying for music because they’re kids.
Video agencies on the other hands… we’ve seen how they all jumped on the subscription service bandwagon. As they’ll do with AI.
Just like Market author could not coexist with Elements, Elements authors will not be able to coexist with AI.
Once it is trained, AI will be as good as the sum of all authors, and a thousand times more efficient. Though nowhere near that level now, it will happen very quickly.
The real question is why would a company keep on paying a pool of authors, when their AI does as good a job and let them keep our share?