AI-generated music is now competing with human musicians on major music charts worldwide. This week, two AI-generated songs reached the top of international music charts. Xania Monet became the first AI-generated artist to debut on Billboard's Adult R&B chart, and Breaking Rust's song "Walk My Walk" topped Billboard's country digital song sales chart. These songs were created entirely by artificial intelligence without any human musicians or composers involved.

The rise of AI-generated content is creating serious problems for creative professionals. In Canada, musicians, songwriters, and other artists are very worried about their jobs and futures. The president of the Songwriters' Association of Canada explained that 100,000 songs are already uploaded to Spotify every single day by human creators, and now AI is adding millions more low-quality songs to the platform. Artists say they cannot compete with AI that can create thousands of songs instantly.

Creative groups around the world are demanding that governments create new rules. They want a licensing system that would require AI companies to pay artists when using their work to train AI models. The Canadian creative sector is calling for better transparency so artists can know when and how their work is being used. They also want copyright laws to be strengthened to protect human creators from AI competition.

The problem extends beyond music to books, images, and videos. Publishers in Canada discovered that AI-generated biographies of politicians are flooding Amazon, sometimes ranking higher than real books written by actual humans. This flood of low-quality AI content is making it harder for real creative professionals to find readers and earn money from their work.