Bruce Springsteen's new protest song is important because it's AUTHENTIC and human - not AI
And before anyone here suggests it's important because he's famous - ask yourself if it would mean nearly as much, or anything at all, if he'd written and recorded it using AI.
Not only wouldn't it mean much, but he would have lost fans and tarnished his legacy.
We've seen a number of AI-generated "protest songs" posted here the last couple of years. There are entire channels with AI slop protest songs, most of them anonymous.
They're all worthless as messaging because they're AI. They're not an authentic human voice and an authentic human message expressed via authentic human talent. They're just AI slop generated in minutes or less from a prompt, by mindless software that will go on forever offering different options from the same prompt, with no consciousness of what any of the words are supposed to mean.
This is a point I've tried to get across to people here who think what's generated by AI - whether words or images or video or music (or all combined in an AI slop video) - is worth creating, or at least worth posting, if there's a political message (including satire ridiculing Trump).
It isn't worth anything. It isn't worth the electricity wasted to generate it, or the water wasted to cool the data center.
It definitely isn't worth the human time wasted to generate it, or share it online, or read it. Because it's just something vomited out by a machine following a prompt.
And even if whoever generates a protest song video, made mostly using AI, claims the lyrics are theirs, there is simply no good reason to believe those weren't also AI-generated, unless they have evidence they wrote the words earlier, before generative AI that could write lyrics was available. No reason to believe someone stooping to use AI for one element of a video wouldn't have used it in every element.
It's a matter of credibility.
Imagine if Bruce said, for instance, that some but not all of the lyrics of his new song were generated by ChatGPT. Not only would that inevitably leave people doubting that any of the lyrics were his own, but it would leave other musicians, creatives of all types, and everyone who cares about humanity vs. AI, feeling disappointed and betrayed.
Some of the people who've said AI-generated protest songs are a good thing have argued that this is a time that calls for more protest songs. And that's true.
But they have to be real songs, from real people. Not AI.
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The large majority of non-live albums since multi-track recording became the norm in the 70's are just that, not live (i.e. not every member playing together). It's so common that when the version on the (studio) album is actually a whole group all playing together and being recorded at the same time, it's kinda notable, bands will put in the liner notes things like "this album was recorded live in studio" types of things to demark the specialness of that recording style (as you say, nowadays 
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It remains, however, pretty damn common for the rhythm section to play/record together (in two booths, using headphones to hear each other) to lay down the backing rhythm tracks (which then goes on the album), then other people lay down their tracks on top of that foundation (guitar, vocals, keys, horns, etc), typically one at a time. I don't think there's any shame in that, but autotune is a whole other degree of lameness, totally agree there!
The most key point though is it's still PEOPLE! 
Post Malone is someone who pisses me off with the autotune BS because he's actually a great vocalist without it, yet he still uses it on his albums (often times pretty glaringly). It works for him in terms of being one of the biggest selling artists of the last 15 years but it frustrates me cause the dude doesn't need it and sounds better without it. I look forward to that dude doing a raw rock and roll album someday with no fucking autotune 
I frankly feel sorry for those Gen-Z, Gen-alpha, and many others who never experience quality music, especially those who don't know what melody is--if all they ever hear is beat-driven Rap.
It's a whole different song 
