Most of audio and music AI have wrong incentives and are moving in a different direction professionals need. Almost all publicized innovations in the sphere are complex one-stop-shop solutions which aim to completely replace as many members of the creative process as possible.

It's a corporate dream: a thing that spews barely-passable, generic mush that's totally aligned with demands of the decision makers, but has zero opinion, zero ambition, zero professional pride and no need to uphold its ethical and aesthetic standards and its own reputation whatsoever.

Instead of tools for the creatives we have systems that generate complete tracks from tinder chat logs. On the other hand, there's still no publicly available audio style transfer with even remotely usable quality (that thing from Google is abysmal).

All I want for starters is something that turns a slightly distorted, over-reverberated and not-perfectly intonated flute recording that a client sends me into a clean workable track. I don't even ask for it to turn it into koto or marimba or whatever you think is a cool demonstration case!

Sorry for the rant, but it's all very frustrating and alarming.

Barely passable, indeed. And then to imagine the MBAs are indeed going to fire staff and downsize contractors because of this. More money for them: is that the incentive here?