Deception and Delusion in people's usage of AI generation in music- its driving me nuts

Recently I got back into writing my own music. One of the things I've gotten into doing is seeing what other independent artists are doing.

Deception

So getting on Facebook, I joined some songwriter and musician groups. I'll often see people posting a song and saying "I just wrote this song with my friend on guest vocals"- with this being an explanation for all of their songs having different vocalists- because they were AI generated.

So I'll find myself clicking on their bandcamp, youtube, or spotify or whatever, and digging it. And then I start looking for things like credits- who played what. And then I realize, I've been duped, the whole thing was AI generated.

Delusion

A lot of people think that, because they write the lyrics, or they "describe" what they prompt, it is somehow "their" music and "them" doing it. And they'll go on rants and defend it.

It's gotten to the point where unless I turn on a song and it has imperfections in audio engineering, vocals, or clearly human played instruments, or the person has clips of themselves playing.

In both cases, I can't seem to figure out what motivates people. Part of me wonders if people are trying to make a profit off of misleading streams.

At some point I'm just wondering- wouldn't it just make more sense to buy a $100 guitar and learn?

Well, that's it from me. Stay real my fellow musicians.