Sigh. Even worse than auto tune.
It’s the end of the world as we know it. 
I do feel fine with what I’ve bought for the past 50 years. I need a good excuse to slow down anyway.
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Which part is worse? Synthesizers have been around since the 1960s, generating sounds that have never existed. (Kraftwerk is one of my favorite bands btw.)
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It’s not the synthesizer part. Take a peek at the video. You can write whole songs generated with a sentence.
Artists will find ways to use it creatively and most likely in ways that were never intended, as they have done with every new technology. Creating music is my smallest AI worry.
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I agree that great artists will use it well. That said, in the post-Max Martin timeframe, people using algorithms to assist with the generation music to ensure chart success, I’ve grown weary of a certain subset of music that all sounds, shall we say, less than inspired and fresh. This trend has truly made it easier (for me) to blow past a huge amount of new music that I sample each week (and I sample a lot). I was being somewhat tongue in cheek about my desire to have excuses to buy less, because I still buy quite a bit and I need all the help I can get :).
All of which is to say, for me, as a music lover who predominately enjoys true ensemble interplay between musicians and also loves the idea of songwriting that comes from the heart, this type of development, while not unexpected and also sure to be used creatively, will surely change the balance of human beings’ collective music corpus in ways that I find a little distressing.
Of course, this is already going on with writing, imagery, and the like. But I don’t collect those things, at least not with the same passion I collect and curate music. When I do collect art and literature, I tend to prefer pre-computer age products, with an certain appreciation for the human machine that went into making those things. The difference — again, for me — is that music is a more immediate window — for me — into the soul of its creator than those other media are. Not all feel the same, I realize.
But conveyor belt music production has existed for more than a hundred years. The Strauss guys had algorithms for waltzes, Brill building staff wrote songs by the dozen, generic pop pumped out by production teams is similar, there are even compilation CDs with harmless-ified versions of the greatest songs of pop history so that Stairway to Heaven can be used as background music in hotel lobbies.
Either it’s good, whatever the means of production, or it can be ignored.
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You lift me up. Thanks. 
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Otherwise, the inability of people to deal with AI text, voices, and images scares the hell out of me, so I’m glad if there’s one area that doesn’t
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