It’s not necessarily a technocratic workaround, the point is that every song sounds like something if you look hard enough, so the bar for copyright violation should be higher.
It is a mathematical truth that there is a finite amount of first 8 bars of music combinations melody wise, so it's a worthwhile discussion to bring up whether it should even be possible to copyright them.
Has anyone matched large volumes of existing music to that? How many of the 12-note combinations have been used more than once? Most of that space sounds awful, and it's likely that human compositions are all in a small portion of the possible 12 note combinations.
There are only so many ways to express notes, and they've essentially all been done.
I'm not arguing the copyright situation isn't wrong. Just that generating them isn't likely to sway anything in the legal world.