I would love for someone to make this type of post but switch which songs were AI and which are human created. I would bet there would be people saying the humnan-created songs were soulless and the AI songs had that "je ne sais quoi".
Right now all AI songs I've heard have this dead emotion to it that makes me cringe a lot. This crispness of the vocals also don't match the song at all, I'm surprised the author didn't mention this.
Of course it will be good at some point. If AI can match the range of vocals, emotions, pronunciations, why not? Whatever intent behind the art can be attached to generated music after the fact. What boggles me is that some people find the current level of AI acceptable for anything else than playing around or find inspiration.
The way I see it is, AI cannot nail these things until you can imbue it with a comprehensive set of human experiences, knowledge and opinions, and the knowledge of every step of the artistic creation process, AND how to weave these two different things together to create something that conveys inherent meaning to other humans by virtue of being the thing that it is.
Basically until we can actually model a human brain in real time, AI generated media will always be kinda shit. Not exceptionalism - just the truth.
Those demos have soul. The AI versions don't.
They succeed in some ways at capturing the human emotion in the demo, and fall flat in other ways.
It's not any worse than a human cover by a skilled but uninspiring human artist.Depending on how you evaluate, it's either amazing it gets this far, or not impressive at all. :-)
I'd add the demos to my playlist, I wouldn't add the others. (I'm not against AIs in general.)