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

[AZJonnie]

3. To be fair autotune is quite different (and more egregious) than not recording together

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 )

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!