Why Is AI-Generated Music Still so Bad?

There's no denying that holiday music is somewhat formulaic. You'd think it would be easy for a computer to generate something indistinguishable from the typical carols piped through department stores this time of year. Turns out, it's not that easy. Swedish company Made by AI recently trained an AI system on 100 midi files of Christmas tunes, then tasked it with creating new songs. Made by AI is not the first group to create some lackluster AI-generated music. There was this attempt, from researchers at the University of Toronto in 2016.