To each their own of course, but I personally don’t get the point of avoiding AI music when what you’re listening to (lofi beats) is essentially elevator background tier noise anyway. I listen to various types of it all the time and I honestly couldn’t tell you the difference between AI or not in this genre.

Listening to Tokyo Echo Sounds right now, is it AI? Probably, but how tf would I even know if I did care?

There’s the chance that you notice patterns emerging that become quite grating after listening to it for awhile, in the same way that LLMs tend to have subtle but eventually noticeable patterns in writing. Some people care, some don’t.

Will that be the case for the music that you are listening to that’s generated by AI, maybe? Maybe not?

By highlighting that the music predates generative AI, at least that’s something that you won’t have to think about.

At least, that’s how I read it. It’s like a ‘no artificial sweeteners’ label on a drink.