This week, the creative industries around the world faced major challenges from artificial intelligence. Human artists, musicians, writers, and other creative professionals are struggling as AI becomes better and better at creating content that seems like it was made by humans. The situation is changing very quickly, and creative professionals are worried about keeping their jobs.

AI-generated music made a big milestone this week. For the first time, songs created entirely by AI have reached major international music charts. Xania Monet became the first AI-generated artist to debut on Billboard's Adult R&B chart in the United States, and Breaking Rust's AI-created song "Walk My Walk" topped Billboard's country digital song sales chart. These achievements show how advanced AI has become at creating music that sounds like it was made by real musicians.

The music industry is being flooded with AI content very quickly. The president of the Songwriters' Association of Canada shared that 100,000 new songs from human creators are uploaded to Spotify every day. Now add AI to that number, and the platform is becoming crowded with so much content that real musicians cannot be heard. This makes it almost impossible for human musicians to get people to listen to their music or earn money from it.

Music is not the only creative field having problems. Publishers discovered that AI is creating fake books on major platforms like Amazon. Search results for famous people's biographies now show many AI-generated books mixed in with real books. Some of these fake books even have AI-generated cover art and rank higher in search results than real books written by actual humans. Consumers cannot tell the difference between a well-researched real book and an AI-generated "slop" until they buy it and read it.

Creative professionals in Canada are demanding action from their government. The Canadian creative sector, including musicians, writers, publishers, and TV and movie makers, asked Canadian lawmakers to create new rules. They want a licensing system that would make AI companies pay artists when using their work to train AI models. They also want transparency so artists know which of their works are being used by AI companies. Without this transparency, artists do not even know if their work is being used or if they can license it to others.

Copyright laws are at the center of the debate. Creative groups argue that AI companies are using millions of copyrighted songs, books, and images to train AI models without paying the people who created them. They say this is unfair and hurts artists' ability to earn money. However, some people argue that AI development might move to other countries if Canada makes it too difficult to develop AI. This creates a difficult balance between helping artists and supporting technology companies.

The broader problem is the massive increase in low-quality AI content on platforms. One expert warned that within just a few years, over 90 percent of the content on major platforms could be AI-generated. This would mean the platforms are filled mostly with content made by machines instead of human creators. As AI becomes more advanced, these problems will only get worse unless new rules are put in place.

Creative professionals from different industries are coming together to solve this problem. The House of Commons Heritage committee in Canada held hearings from music unions, publishing associations, writers' guilds, and other creative groups. All of them told lawmakers that new copyright rules are needed to protect human creators. However, they also want the process to be fair and to help Canada stay competitive with other countries in developing AI technology. The situation shows how quickly AI is changing the creative industries and why new protections for artists are essential.