Maybe Iovine and Dre are correct in this respect: AI is no drastic change from what we have experienced these last couple decades, while they and their colleagues at the top of the music/tech industry made billions. AI is simply more of what they practiced all along: the marginalization of labor in music, to the point where capital now imagines labor is entirely irrelevant to its continued growth.

Dre being pro-AI is one of those things that is disappointing but not surprising -- old people be old -- but I still found this piece short and insightful. The underlying issue here is the disappearance of human labor from the larger music industry, as would be expected as capitalism continues its imperialist march toward profit.