In an age when the boundary between human creativity and machine output grows harder to locate, Google has brought its most advanced music-generation model, Lyria 3.5, into the hands of ordinary users through the Gemini app — allowing anyone to conjure a full song from a sentence or a photograph. The move arrives not in a vacuum but against a backdrop of genuine disruption: AI-generated music already constitutes nearly half of daily uploads on some streaming platforms, and the fraud that has followed raises questions about authenticity, economics, and what it means to make something. Google's