When the incentives (money, fame, sex) are taken away from producing music, the infrastructure for teaching music will erode rapidly. If AI takes over the music industry, music teaching and production of affordable musical instruments will be gone within a generation. There will be no resources left for "pursuing these creative passions", and aspiring pop musicians will only be able to produce bad and old-fashioned sounding tripe, and be ignored.
Classical music might be an exception, since the audience cares a lot about performance, and is much less impressed by fashions and fads (sometimes to the detriment of modern composers, but that's another story).
I enjoy playing guitar, have had no meaningful tuition, and while occassionally wonder what it would be like to perform live have no realistic expectation of doing so.
The machines are taking nothing. You may allow someone to take your money for this infinitely reproducible string of notes but ultimately recorded music and it's sale is only a relatively recent phenomenon. Most modern pop music had become largely mechanical anyway.
The machines will take away your guitar. When people abandon making music, guitars will be in less demand, and become more expensive. New players will have to rely on old sources for learning, because almost nobody will be interested in keeping them up to date or producing new content. And when the old sources go (and they inevitable do), that will be lost as well, and popular music fades away, al niente.
I think most people gave up the dream of money, fame and sex when software came along and lead to a massive influx of people making music, thereby increasing the competition enormously. That happened about 30 years ago and the numbers of people creating music, teaching music and buying musical instruments have been going through the roof ever since.
Tribal people have amazing music, I doubt their drive was money (which didn't exist), fame (didn't exist), or sex (maybe?). Dancing is probably more important for courtship, nearly everyone sucks at that and we're still here.
How many people are interested in folk music? Very few. And in earlier tribal music much less. Any development will stay local, and nobody will be able to stand on the shoulders of giants.
When the incentives (money, fame, sex) are taken away from producing music, the infrastructure for teaching music will erode rapidly. If AI takes over the music industry, music teaching and production of affordable musical instruments will be gone within a generation. There will be no resources left for "pursuing these creative passions", and aspiring pop musicians will only be able to produce bad and old-fashioned sounding tripe, and be ignored.
Classical music might be an exception, since the audience cares a lot about performance, and is much less impressed by fashions and fads (sometimes to the detriment of modern composers, but that's another story).