Watched a fresh interview of a banned group with a foreign agent, and there they discussed in passing the topic of neural networks' influence on musicians, confirming several thoughts from my notes. Aigel said that music and lyrics created by neural networks have no soul. Ilya added incredibly accurately that art is the transfer of emotions from person to person. You can argue with the first thesis, since the conversation about what soul is lies somewhere beyond the rational world, but I'm delighted with the second one.
The point is that without people behind the music, I don't care about it by default. First the form catches you, then you dig to the content, and after the content you exit to the meta level to the authors. If the authors are close to you, then it's a perfect match. If not, then this work can't become your favorite a priori, because there are the first ones. Attitude towards authors is such an additional spice that either improves everything, or on the contrary worsens it. Up to the point that you stop listening to songs that you like. Recently this has become much more noticeable, due to how society sharply polarized.
People are imperfect, and this is all a consequence of some of their personal history, that's what makes them interesting. Neural networks have no stories at all. Even if we imagine that in form and content they won't be inferior in anything, on the meta level they will always lose to people.
Naturally we're talking about authored content from the potential pantheon of geeks like me, not some gum. I'm almost sure that our brain will soon train and like banner blindness there will be some more neuro-blindness, so we just pass by generated creative content.