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So much wrong with this...
In a way, it reminds me of the wave of entirely fixed/premade loop-based music making tools from years ago. Where you just drag and drop a number of pre-made loops from a library onto some tracks, and then the software automatically makes them fit together musically and that's it, no further skill or effort required. I always found that fun to play around with for an evening or two, but then it quickly got boring. Because the more you optimize away the creative process, the less interesting it becomes.
Now the AI bros have made it even more streamlined, which means it's even more boring. Great. Also, they appear to think that they are the first people to ever have the idea "let's make music making simple". Not surprising they believe that, because a fundamental tech bro belief is that history is never interesting and can never teach anything, so they never even look at it.
A generous interpretation may be that writing music in the context of the modern music industry may indeed be something that’s creatively unsatisfying for composers, but the solutions to that have nothing to do with magical tech-fixes and everything to do with politics, which is of course anathema to these types. What dumb times we live in.
If you're going for "pop music all sounds the same", that doesn't really match my experience of actually listening to modern popular music. There's so much damn variety and unique sound out there these days. Although I'm not a professional musician so I guess I can't be sure what kinds of creative restrictions being in the industry puts on one
It's not so much the composition bit as all the extraneous stuff like multitracking a thousand pristine sounding takes and mixing and mastering it all to fuck because it will sound "professional" and fit with all the professional sounding songs on the streaming platforms. It's boring and annoying and it's what beginner bedroom musicians think they have to do these days and I hate it.
The real solution of course is to go fuck that noise and record your songs in one take with your laptop microphone as god intended.