Imagine the attribution for the drum tracks is "Hire-a-Drummer". Neither the artist nor the listener know if the actual drum tracks were from a human drummer, a programmed drum machine, or AI.
Is the issue, "hey, it might be AI, therefore on a metaphysical level I do not enjoy this as much as if I knew for certain that the drums were recorded by a real drummer"?
Or separately and without the complication of "Hire-a-Drummer", what about failing to disclose that drum tracks were hand-sequenced on a drum machine?
Or separately, is the issue that the drums were outsourced in the first place?
That is to say, if a human drummer is hired and the only instruction is to "add some dope beats to this track" and the drum tracks are used thereafter without any further refinement, does/should this affect the listener's perception?
It's the outsourcing at all, and it mostly just changes how I see a song. A ton of R&B tracks have their underlying beat outsourced, and you know that because the songs have a producer tag (and the producer gets credit in the metadata), but they're still enjoyable. A producer tag for AI would be nice but I know it won't happen.
So a singer-songwriter who plays all the instruments, produces and records all of their material? I mean, do we get down to the details of microphone choice and positioning?
https://xkcd.com/378/
This is what comes to mind reading this thread.