There is now clearly going to be a widening divide between music made by humans and music created with the involvement of Artificial Intelligence. The year of radical public awareness of this shift will probably be 2026. All of us who have worked in, with, or for music will know that everything from our lifetime before that point was real - or at least conceived and controlled entirely by humans. Its value will rise and rise. We, including our children, will look back at music from the '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, 2000s, and 2010s as genuine art - valuable for eternity. There is simply no comparison. You can compose and create whatever you want now, instruct a DAW or AI tool to generate something sounding like X, Y, or Z - but it will prove extremely hard to compete with what we all know for certain was real human music composition, with all its quirks, imperfections, and irregularities. Yes, you could argue that electronic music was already non-human in some sense - but even then, humans remained in full control of every creative decision throughout the entire process. An arpeggio generated by an old Casio keyboard might be called…