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.
I'm not arguing the copyright situation isn't wrong. Just that generating them isn't likely to sway anything in the legal world.