No. You no longer have to gather other humans. But electronic music production requires a wild amount of technical knowledge from a single individual, whereas being in a band only requires you to know how to play one instrument. To do electronic music production decently, you need to understand music theory, the actual physics of waves and how to manipulate that (synthesis), how to even process samples (you can't just chuck them in there), how to mix and master by yourself (bands would generally save up together from playing live to pay someone else for this - these are two fields that people dedicate their whole lives to, and that most electronic music producers do entirely by themselves alongside making the whole song), you need to be able to play piano a little bit usually... you need to learn loads of different hardware and software, and you need to be the sole composer coming up with an idea from nothing, usually containing a number of musical parts closer to a symphony than a rock band.
Electronic music production is not easy. If you really just throw some samples in a daw, it will sound like a 10 year old made it and it will probably break people's speakers because it's not mixed and mastered properly. Electronic music is a mature enough genre (that incidentally even in its inception was originated by people who were also traditional musicians) that fans don't accept a macaroni collage of a song that once again probably would break their speakers.
We are actually kind of agreeing.
Let me change my words a little bit then.
The barrier to entry was significantly lowered through electronics. I was making music on Fruity loops when I was 12 years old. It was shit, but I had everything I needed in a single program. Becoming a producer however is extremely difficult.
The same will happen with AI. The barrier of entry to making something nice will be even lower. But mastering the AI tools, and really using it and combining it with musical knowledge will be extremely hard.
And those people will rise to the top of creating new musical genres, with the inclusion of AI.
Electronic music production is not easy. If you really just throw some samples in a daw, it will sound like a 10 year old made it and it will probably break people's speakers because it's not mixed and mastered properly. Electronic music is a mature enough genre (that incidentally even in its inception was originated by people who were also traditional musicians) that fans don't accept a macaroni collage of a song that once again probably would break their speakers.