Jazz guitarist here, utterly disgusted by this technology: you are right on the money. The chorus is fine (though bland), but the verses are simply terrible - not just bad timing, there is a total lack of melodic "flow." Like almost all AI music I've heard, the melodies fit into one of two categories:
1) generic and lazy, but works musically due to Music Theory 101 (playing chord tones to the beat, cliched progressions, dumb rhythms)
2) arbitrary and nonmusical, not at all like a bad musician (more like a baby on a piano)
I will add that LLM hallucinations often blend into the text, and an art generator screwup might be hidden in the background. But when a generative music AI hits an off note in a distinctly nonhuman way, it's obvious and very jarring, even if it's only a handful of times in a long song.
Convenient for making samples? Sure, I guess. So are drum machines. I'll bet SD would be great at making images for collages to, but it kind of defeats the purpose, no? Good samples are almost always good because they're amazing but weird little bits of quirk or real musical genius that can say something completely different about music in a different context. The process of finding and choosing samples is exploratory, and the sophistication you get from listening to all of that great music is a big part of it. Commanding some machine to just make them for you and tweaking them to get them just so yields all the inconvenience of sampling with the lack of substance you'd get from a drum machine. While people making amazing art using drum machines, it's because they're making art around them, not because any specific thing the drum machine did.
1) generic and lazy, but works musically due to Music Theory 101 (playing chord tones to the beat, cliched progressions, dumb rhythms)
2) arbitrary and nonmusical, not at all like a bad musician (more like a baby on a piano)
I will add that LLM hallucinations often blend into the text, and an art generator screwup might be hidden in the background. But when a generative music AI hits an off note in a distinctly nonhuman way, it's obvious and very jarring, even if it's only a handful of times in a long song.