Thread For Chatter About The Streaming Music Economy

I've read some pretty convincing theories around a possible trajectory for Spotify that gets further away from artist-centric music listening:
-Since they obviously make their money from subscriptions and ads, they only stand to lose money when you listen to music that has publishing/copyright holders.
-It's easy to imagine using machine learning to just generate long, endless AI background music based on your 'preferences'

But how would this square with their current moves toward TikTok-y videos from artists, which sucks in its own way but puts the human element right in front of the listener? Maybe it's a two-pronged approach...get human artists to use 'Discovery' mode and make even less money from listeners in exchange for exposure, and try to wrest eyes from other social media platforms, and then generate infinite copies based on what does well for the listeners who don't care about who makes the music?

sounds about right, what a terrible platform, anything with shareholders turns to garbage