The end of physical media is neigh

Physical media:  It has been over three years since I moved away from physical media.  I have an extensive vinyl collection and a decent playback system, but only listen to vinyl on those rare occasions where an album is not offered on the streaming service I use.  I am contemplating selling my vinyl playback system.   I find my digital playback system equal to and often superior to vinyl playback SQ and much more convenient, not having  to remove from storage and clean the vinyl.  I also have not played silver/gold disks.  I burn disks not offered on streaming services to my server.  I do not have a working CD player.   
AI content:  This is a particular concern of mine.  My son is an actor who has had a number of recurring, small TV parts and cartoon voiceovers.  SAG has protected major actors to a degree but not smaller roles.  There is high probability the bit part roles will be deep fakes impacting the livelihood of actors that depend on these roles for income and a path forward to supporting or major roles.  The music industry is at greater risk.  Actors and musicians have human experience -  connections and interactions with other human beings and a soul.  Their experience and soul is the creativity and expression of emotion is the art of their vision they wish to present to us in the characters they portray or the interpretation of the music they conduct or play.  There is also spontaneity in a human performance.  I feel we will loose the emotion, soul, and spontaneity with deep fakes that use an algorithm to homogenizes input of all past performances.  I feel it is a sad future state of for the human expression of the art.  

@cleeds “blissfully simple” was @devinplombier  post, not mine.  However, I agree with both of you in part.  The beauty is in the music, regardless of format.  Nothing has changed with regard to the legal right to play the music.  The business model changed. Now, the streaming services pay royalties to the owner of the copyright and you pay the services for the right to play the music at any time on their platform rather than the publisher/manufacturer of physical media paying the royalties and you buying the physical media.  There is no increased chance of the copyright owner preventing you to play the music, unless the service defaults on payment or the contract expires without agreement on a new contract.  What has changed is it is much more convenient to stream with equivalent, or in my case , improved SQ and an improved process for management of your music.  

This thread has focused on the perceived benefits and risks of the change in the music and movie industry business practice from physical media to digital streaming.   However, in his original post @erik_squires stated “With the advent of machine learning and AI controlling our music listening we are becoming a world without any control at all over our music or movie culture”.  I can take Eric’s statement two ways. First, the statement’s direct meaning is that machine learning controls what we listen to.  I do not see this 1984-esque statement as fact.  Machine learning and AI generates recommended content based on your history and generates revenue for the streaming services by the sale of your history to those interested commercially.  Let’s not debate the ethics of the latter.  I can also take the statement to mean machine learning and AI can and will be used to create content without the musician or actor, having an effect on culture. I responded in my original post as to what I feel are the dangers to the human, artistic nature of music and theater.  To repeat, I feel we will loose the emotion, soul, and spontaneity with deep fakes that use an algorithm to homogenizes input of all past performances.  I feel it is a sad future state of for the human expression of the art.

 @erik_squires What was your meaning of the statement?

Others: Do you have an opinion on machine learning and AI replacing musicians and actors in the generation of new content? … and its effect on culture.