50,000 AI songs upload daily — yet the Grammys refuse them

recording academy ceo harvey mason jr. declared that ai is now omnipresent in professional music production sessions, marking a shift from theoretical concerns to practical ubiquity. this surge accompanies data from streaming platform deezer indicating over 50,000 ai-generated songs are uploaded daily, creating identification challenges for platforms. while tools like suno become mainstream for artists, the grammys maintain a policy barring purely ai-generated works from eligibility, forcing the academy to navigate the tension between embracing technological integration and protecting human artistic recognition.