Bruce Springsteen's new protest song is important because it's AUTHENTIC and human - not AI [View all]
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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