{"id":43464,"date":"2025-08-11T14:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/ai-photos-of-classic-rock-legends-crying-hugging-are-everywhere\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T14:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:56:11","slug":"ai-photos-of-classic-rock-legends-crying-hugging-are-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/ai-photos-of-classic-rock-legends-crying-hugging-are-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Photos of Classic Rock Legends Crying, Hugging Are Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\tThey\u2019re the intimate, private moments that fans of classic rockers never get to see. Steven Tyler, hammer and nails in hand, building a dog house for rescued animals. Mick Jagger, Elton John, and Rod Stewart harmonizing at Ozzy Osbourne\u2019s memorial service<\/a>. Jagger and Tyler <\/strong>cheering up a bed-ridden Phil Collins in a hospital. Bruce Springsteen treating health-care workers to a rendition of \u201cIf I Should Fall Behind\u201d while visiting his wife Patti in a facility.<\/p>\n

\n\tPersonal and heartwarming, yes, but also, to put it mildly, completely bogus.<\/p>\n

\n\tFrom fake bands to artificially generated songs, AI<\/a> is increasingly infiltrating the music world. Last month, a mystery band called Velvet Sundown<\/a> appeared on streaming services, garnering hundreds of thousands of listeners before ultimately admitting the alleged band was, in the words of their creators, \u201ca synthetic music project guided by human creative direction, and composed, voiced, and visualized with the support of artificial intelligence<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn that context, AI-generated images of rock stars were inevitable, but the photos of music legends that have been increasingly popping up on Facebook and elsewhere are jaw-droppingly outrageous. Collins rescued a missing child at an airport and scolded police for not doing their jobs? Springsteen bought a diner to give out free food to the homeless? Adele and Adam Lambert sang together at Malcolm-Jamal Warner\u2019s memorial service? Tyler and Taylor Swift serenaded Queen Camilla with \u201cHappy Birthday\u201d at a lavish party in her honor? Bob Dylan paid Collins a hospital visit and<\/em> brought Dick Van Dyke an early 100th birthday cake? Each of these totally fake images has accompanying hyperbolic prose too: When Paul McCartney and Collins supposedly visited Willie Nelson in an Austin hospital, \u201cThe room didn\u2019t feel like a hospital anymore \u2014 it felt like the heart of music itself, still beating.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThese types of posts definitely tap into nostalgia, and people want to believe these types of things,\u201d says Justin Grome, founder of Clonefluence, a social-media marketing and consulting agency that specializes in music. \u201cEven if they aren\u2019t real, they\u2019re wholesome. It\u2019s not a case of fake news in the political sense. It\u2019s not really meant to enrage people. It\u2019s meant to comfort, which makes it even harder to combat, because who is going to question something like that that makes them feel good?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe images are so absurdly simulated that they\u2019re essentially the music equivalent of the enduring \u201cDogs Playing Poker\u201d<\/a> poster. And based on comments that accompany many of the image, plenty of people are dismissing them: \u201cMore AI-fabricated rubbish.\u201d \u201cEnough of this AI bullshit.\u201d \u201cHow gullible are you guys?\u201d In light of Collins recently being hospitalized for knee surgery, his fans were actually jarred and angered by an AI image of McCartney supposedly visiting him under far more dire circumstances. On a Genesis\/Collins message board, they raged: \u201cGet a grip, it\u2019s all fake!\u201d and \u201cAI sucks!\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tAI-generated images of classic rockers in bizarre situations, like this one depicting Mick Jagger, Steven Tyler, and Phil Collins, are increasingly appearing online.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tBut the bulk of the images depict older rockers, which only adds to the confusion. Given many of them are in their seventies and eighties, it\u2019s easy to believe they\u2019re falling ill (Eric Clapton serenading Plant in a hospital corridor!) or crying together over hard times (Is that really Dylan and Springsteen hugging and sobbing it out?). An AI image of Aerosmith\u2019s Tyler paying Nelson a bedside visit in a hospital resulted in comments like, \u201cPrayers to Willie and that was nice on Steven going to see him.\u201d (The building-a-doghouse image fooled plenty of fans, too.) <\/strong>A supposed image of Jimmy Page pushing his former bandmate Robert Plant in a wheelchair elicited many skeptical comments (\u201cLast week it was Phil Collins\u201d) and just as many admiring ones (\u201cPraying for you to get better,\u201d \u201cYou got this, Robert\u201d).<\/p>\n

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\n\tSpokespeople for some of the major artists depicted \u2014 Springsteen, Dylan, Collins, and the late Osbourne \u2014 have declined comment or not responded to requests from Rolling Stone<\/em>. Rock & Roll Universe, among the most prominent of the sites that post the images, did not respond to an email from RS<\/em>. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n\tFor the moment, that strategy on the part of the artists may work, given how seemingly harmless the imaginary images are, but Grome warns that problems could ensue. \u201cThe hardest part about the situation is when artists or their teams don\u2019t immediately speak up,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd if they don\u2019t speak up, it kind of validates the image as maybe even true. Especially in a scenario like these, where there\u2019s enough hope for the public to feel like it\u2019s a little bit true. There\u2019s a very, very blurry line when it gets to celebrating something and seeing something that\u2019s fake.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the meantime, enjoy those AI photos of Metallica\u2019s Lars Ulrich helping his bandmate James Hetfield blow out birthday cake candles. Just don\u2019t be surprised if it turns out you\u2019ve been duped.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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