As one of the meatsacks whose job you're about to kill... eh, I got nothin, it's damn impressive. It's gonna hit electronic music like a nuclear bomb, I'd wager.

As a listener, I think you're probably still safe. Can you use this to help you though? Maybe.

It's impressive what it produces, but I think it probably lacks substance in the same way the visual AI art stuff does. For the most part, it passes what I call the at-a-glanceness test. It's little better than apophenia (the same thing that makes you see shapes in clouds, faces in rocks, or think you've recognised a familiar word in a foreign language; the last one can happen more often though).

So, I think these tools will be used to do background work (ie for visuals maybe help with background tasks in CGI or faraway textures in games). I know less about audio, but I assume it could maybe help a DJ create a transition between two segments they want to combine, as opposed make the whole composition for them, but idk if that example makes sense.

Now, onto a more human point: I think that people often listen to music because it means something to them. Similar for people who appreciate visual art.

I also love interactive and light art, and I love talking to other artists at light festivals who make them because of the stories and journeys behind their art too. Humans and art are a package deal, IMO.

Edit: typos and to add: Also, I think prompt authorship is an art unto itself. I'm amazed what people can craft with it, but I'm more impressed by the craft itself than the outputs. Don't get me wrong, the outputs are darn cool, but not if you look closer. And it's impossible to look beneath the surface altogether, as there is nothing in the output but the pixels.

I think this type of generative stuff opens up entirely new possibilities. For the longest time I've wanted to host a rowing or treadmill competition, where contestants submit a music track. The tracks are mashed up with weighting based on who is in the lead and by how much.

I don't know of existing tech that can generate actual good mashups in realtime given arbitrary mp3s, but this has promise!

It's not too hard these days with open source BPM detection and stem separation libraries: https://github.com/deezer/spleeter