Listen to some samples:

- https://openai.com/blog/jukebox/ (2020, quite good, but no classical music)

- https://openai.com/blog/musenet/ (2019 so not as good as the 2020 one, but showcases classical music)

There is no reason to assume that one cannot be moved by AI-generated music, as the AI has learnt from human-generated music and tries to mimick the styles.

While it's technically impressive and has a decent surface-level resemblance, none of the samples had any sense of direction or substance.

I can see this kind of tech taking over stuff like stock music that's automatically added to consumer holiday videos or played on the phone while you wait for a customer service agent.

That said, I'd expect the agent to be an AI long before generated music becomes independently musically relevant.

Yeah, it's very moving to see a human-made machine do such wonders. Fills me with awe, appreciation, and hope.

That's exactly it, though. This stuff is interesting because of the novelty of AI. The works themselves are not independently relevant (not yet, at least).

Elsewhere someone replied that art is interesting in a large part because of the personal story. How is this differemt?

99% of the time, I don't listen to music for the personal story of the artists involved. In fact, a lot of the music I listen to is made by artists that I know very little about.