Ok, so ai has and is replacing artists because it allows people who begrudged paying for them in the first place an easy way to replace them. It just is, but that is only one of the problems there is the whole stealing peoples work to train models thing, that is very important. And saying itunes didnt replace records is a-historical tbh the CD market collapsed over night, how much artists make from sales collapsed, piracy destroyed revenue and we now have £150 concert tickets as standard.