Woman ices out friend for not supporting her "AI music career," friend refuses to engage: 'She's using plagiarized slop and pushing it off as something real'

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JR Atkinson • Writer and Editor
Oct 11, 2025 10:00 AM EDT

Part of being a good friend is supporting their artistic endeavors, but does "making" AI music count as an artistic endeavor? 

We've all been in the position where we've had to swallow our pride and go to a friend's a cappella concert we really didn't want to. That is, if you're anything like me. Supporting your friends' art is part and parcel of being a friend. You would want them to support you if you went out on a limb and expressed yourself, so why shouldn't you? Sometimes this is a big undertaking, though. Sometimes, if they're just starting out, they might not be very good at whatever it is they're trying. You then have to put on a happy face and smile through it anyway. You would hate for them to be discouraged. 

But what if something crosses the line from art to… something else? Do you still have to support your friend then? That's what came up in this story, where one woman's venture into AI "art" made her friend start to rethink everything. So they reached out to the internet for opinions. 

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  • A woman makes music on a desktop computer.
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    The image does not depict the actual subjects of the story. Subjects are models.

  • It's hard to define what makes art art, especially in our era. When any medium can be replicated, to some degree of accuracy, with the push of a button, then is it still art? Does it require a human touch to count? And do your friends need to support you? Scroll on for more discourse on the subject. 

  • Am I in the wrong for not supporting my friend's "Al music career"?

    So a friend of mine likes to make music. She used to write her own music & lyrics and play them on a guitar. She has always been alright at both but never brilliant, which didn't matter because we were only jamming among friends. It was fun (I myself like to sing but also consider myself okay rather than actually talented).
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  • About half a year ago she discovered some Al music tool which you can feed with prompts and lyrics and it'll spit out whatever genre and style you like with Al generated instruments and vocals. I explained to her that I'm a little uneasy with the idea because it takes away from the creative process and "craftsmanship" of making music but I didn't press the issue because I thought it was just for fun.
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  • Now, though, she fancies the songs she's created with the Al so much that she's started a campaign for them. She's published an album on Spotify and advertises for it on Insta. She wants me to share her posts and support her "music career". I don't want to do that. Does that make me a bad friend?
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  • Commenters had a lot to say about this "artistic endeavor"

    Aggravating Part... . 23h ago NTA Ai slop has no place in creative roles/hobbies and will only devalue those with actual skill. Use in any other role that's not creative, all for it. But music, art ai should be shunned.
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  • Maridescent0 · 23h ago . No, absolutely NTA. She's using plagiarised slop and pushing it off as something real. She's lucky you're still friends with her.
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  • mooseplainer • 23h ago . NTA. There's also evidence that using Al tools to generate your art actively erodes talent, and I'm honestly shocked how fast that happens. Even writing simple emails seems like a Sisyphean task to people now who've been having a
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  • A woman with headphones works on a music software on a desktop.
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    The image does not depict the actual subjects of the story. Subjects are models.

  • chatbot do it for mere months. So her guitar talent I wouldn't be shocked if it just disappeared. This is all ignoring the fact her Al music is an amalgamation of stolen work stitched together without purpose. Rant aside, no you don't need to cheerlead every friend's obnoxious decisions.
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  • • musthavesoundeffects · 19h ago Music has always and inevitably will be an art form that borrows from other musicians, entire genres of music wouldn't even exist if people were only allowed to play what they personally could create. Literally all of folk music that exists is based on taking, recombining, and iterating on other people's music. And before you mention attribution or royalties remember that those are inventions of record companies and only serve to stifle innovation.
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  • mooseplainer ⚫19h ago Not sure what point you're trying to make or respond to here.
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  • Luxray 16h ago Literally all of folk music that exists is based on taking, recombining, and iterating on other people's music. Yeah but they're still playing the music, not telling a computer to play it.
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  • Going AllTheJay • 13h ago You're talking about musicians. This person told a computer to do it and is claiming the work as theirs. "Write a bouncy indie dance song about being sad but pushing through it, in E" is not song writing. It's barely sentence writing.
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  • metalmankam • 22h ago She created nothing and should be embarrassed
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  • writerfreckles · 23h ago NTA I'm an author and I abhor gen Al. It's theft and it is soulless.
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  • Scruffy42 23h ago I don't know that helping someone cheat on a test would make you a good friend. It's basically the same thing. Taking the talent they were developing and watching them flush it down the toilet to take the easy way.
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  • Al music is surprisingly good so I'm sure it's attractive, but the second people hear it's Al, there is pushback. I have a friend who start an "Al" image business after trying to be an artist. All sympathy and support went out the window. If I can do it by typing in a prompt, it is valueless.
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  • cosmic_monster... • 23h ago NTA f your friend
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  • Fearless_Spring5... . 23h ago NTA. You don't need to act as a cheerleader for every person's activities. You can just wish her good luck and listen to her when she talks about it, but don't need to to go promoting it yourself.
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  • Pyllynkaivelija • 22h ago So she didnt make those songs. The computer wrote the lyrics and composed that sh. I'd be ashamed to call myself a musician if the songs i claim mine were not even made by me but a computer
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  • axw3555 23h ago . NTA. I'm not the typical reddit "AI is the antichrist's more evil brother" type - I use Al. But there are places to use it and places not to. "Al music" is not one of those places. Especially if she's trying to make money from it.
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  • If I use Al to give a quick idea of what a character looks like in my D&D campaign with friends if they unexpectedly go "what does that guy look like?". A quick "he looks something like that" and move on, fine (describing not so effective
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  • for my group, one of my players has real trouble imagining something from just words). Or use it to help outline thoughts - basically brain dump all my raw thoughts into it and have it order it into a structure I can work with.
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  • But using it for the creative process, making money of it and calling it a "music career" crosses a line. It's not her music career. Anyone who put the same prompt in the same model would get comparable results. She's not material to the process.
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  • ChimpBuns 22h ago . She's not creating the songs, Al is creating the songs. Your friend is a failed hack who should never call herself a "musician". Tell her her Al slop will never be real music. NTA
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  • AverageShitlord • 22h ago NTA - I'm going to be real, her career is as good as de d. Music listeners do NOT like Al generated music in the slightest.
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  • DominoNine • 22h ago NTA she's not a musician, no matter how much she wants to pretend like she is. If she ever cared about her art in the way that every musician I know does she would never have something else do it for her.
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  • I would give an answer more personal to you but frankly your friend represents everything I despise in the world and so that's all I can say.
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  • portiawasonce • 22h ago NTA LMAO this is so hilarious. She's not making anything with the Al music, it's not her music career
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  • SizeKind1035 • 22h ago NTA . Realistically depending on how competent the program is, it's likely if she ever takes off people will find out that she's using gen Al which at a minimum would be embarrassing and at worst career ending. Not even getting into the nitty gritty of how bad it is for the environment and its general need to steal from work that it has "learned" with.
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