With apologies for the X link, here is an example from Suno which felt very musical to me:
https://x.com/sunomusic/status/1857501332560818342
Here's another example on the Suno website: https://suno.com/song/fc991b95-e4e9-4c8f-87e8-e5e4560755e7
Here's another example on the Suno website: https://suno.com/song/fc991b95-e4e9-4c8f-87e8-e5e4560755e7
That said, I mostly prefer AI over "real" human-made recordings (pop, classical, metal, bardcore, whatever) because I tend to learn the patterns too fast to enjoy, or really even tolerate, any recording more than about 3 times* — I assume I'd like live jazz for longer, but have only been to one place that ever had it so I don't know if it breaks that pattern.
* sole exception: TV theme tunes, though the point of them isn't to listen to them
I think this is why there is no real, powerful protest against all that generated stuff. Only the people, that care, are able to articulate what's wrong with it. To me, all of AI generated content sounds horrible. To almost everyone else, this sounds ok. So we will see and hear more of this generated stuff. We are in the middle of the enshittification of all consumable media.
Why go on tour if you can send an AI singer instead and if you cannot sing as good as it anyway?
Most human musicians have very little power; that's been going away for a long time, even since "canned music" "robots" pushed live bands out of cinemas a century ago: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/musicians-wage-war-ag...
Most popular music already feels, and to an extent is, fake. Not only because mere recording allows repeated takes until it's inhumanly "perfect".
When I played an MP3 of Britney Spears to my mum around the turn of the century, she thought it was a robot singing because of the autotune.
The Monkees was famously an attempt at a manufactured band whose members just happened to not feel like playing that game and did it for real, Gorillaz is even more obviously manufactured. Parasocial relationships are inherently different from "real" relationships, but the performers have to pretend that it's personal when they address a crowd or a camera.
Axis of Awesome demonstrated the similarity of most modern hits with their "4 Chords": https://youtu.be/oOlDewpCfZQ?feature=shared
Those with the power were, possibly still are, the record labels; but if the AI are trained on the works of small musicians that can't afford the copyright cases or the political influence, but also whose works are not under the umbrella of the labels who do have those resources but not the right or short term motivation to intercede on their behalf, the big labels themselves may lose the consumer market to free AI output, while professionals will dismiss both the AI output and the label's output as "just different kinds of slop but both slop" (or whatever the current insult de jour is for AI).
I'm starting to think that what AI might be replacing is high ends of consumption, not low ends of generation. Arts has followers that are often less historically significant than genre pioneering works. Doesn't that seem like what AI is doing?
Listening on a laptop speaker Sumo sounds fine. Listening on my wireless earbuds it is... ok. I am too lazy anymore to pull out any of my high quality wired headphones, and if somebody who used to care about sound quality enough to purchase multiple HQ headphones can't be arsed, then the general pubic really is going to think everything is just fine.
Generative AI outputs trigger uncanny valley discomfort that professionals and connoisseurs are better equipped to verbalize.
The quality question is what's the point of stuffs like that, or is it good, even safe, for us to consume.
I've listened to both songs on my Bose QC ultra headphones, which are far from perfect headphones. But even on them, the female voice has unbearable resonances in the higher frequencies. The male voice sounds mostly ok, but has also something that sounds like compression artifacts (like mp3 compression, not loudness compression). All instruments in these songs have these problems. They sound somewhat like the real thing, but really badly recorded. Also, the mixing isn't any good.
It is still very impressive that AI can generate that. But if I would record my band and someone would create such a mix out of it, I would fire them immediately. Heck, I would be furious that they fucked up so bad and would try to get my money back.
So the two links you provided just confirm what I said.