AI helped a musician with Parkinson's finish his new album when he could no longer play guitar

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7. AI certainly makes it easy to generate crap; however,

it's a tool, and there's plenty of technology (AI and otherwise) both in the music industry and elsewhere that can be used either well or poorly.

If a musician prompts "take these lyrics and generate a song in my style based on these previously uploaded songs" then sure, it will be a crap generic imitation of his style.

But if he supplies the tempo, key signature, chord progression, basic melodies for chorus and verse, more details about the style, etc.,

AND then critically listens to the output and keep iterating fixes -- "in measure 37 accent the 3rd beat a little more" -- and so on until it very closely matches what's in his head, then AI becomes a useful tool.

The key to AI is realizing that the QA and fine-tuning part that's really important. The first draft it spits out is usually crap.

Unfortunately, most people don't get past the first draft and try to pass it off as a finished product.