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Unlike software, a song doesn’t need to be maintained to keep working. A song doesn’t need to grow in complexity as more people use it, and a song can’t contain subtle bugs that steal listeners’ credit cards or damage other songs.

Of course metaphors have limits, but the limits of this particular metaphor hide all of the flaws of this technology.

"Entirely new genres" of anything is unlikely from ML models trained on existing work. Someone using AI to implement an entirely new idea will be frustrated as the AI keeps gravitating toward convention.

It's more like autotune in that "literally everyone will use it all the time."