AI music boom prompts urgent debate on Thailand's music future
A new wave of AI-generated music is sweeping through global playlists, with tracks created by algorithms climbing into mainstream streams and collaborations between human artists and intelligent systems becoming more common. The phenomenon has sparked a lively debate about who ultimately benefits from these works, how artists should be paid, and what rules should govern the use of existing music to train machines. In Thailand, where streaming has grown rapidly and local scenes—from pop to luk-thung and mor lam—rely on a mix of live performance and digital distribution, the discussions could shape the country’s cultural economy for years to come. The core questions are now no longer only about novelty or convenience; they touch on authorship, fairness, and the very idea of what creativity means in a digital age.