ListNook

dakilazical_253 Mar 31, 2026 +850

This smells like someone taking advantage of Bob. He’s 84 years old, no way he came up with this on his own

850

Conscious_Can3226 Mar 31, 2026 +119

My elderly in-laws adore AI. I constantly get AI-generated 'look at what I wrote' or 'look at this cute picture of my grandkids as elves' from my MIL. They aren't even stupid people, they used to be surgeons.

119

Neveroxx99 Mar 31, 2026 +44

AI is pretty cool on it's own if you disregard all the negative consequences it has.

44

Filligan Mar 31, 2026 +44

Someone once said the same thing to me about cocaine.

44

Remarkable-Ad9529 Mar 31, 2026 +13

I wish I could disregard all the negative effects of cigs too

13

mrastickman Mar 31, 2026 +2

Well, yeah, half of an average p******* is basicly cocaine and heroine. It depends on how you use it.

2

DtheAussieBoye Apr 1, 2026 +2

The thing is, most of the general public aren’t aware of those negative consequences. Especially the older folk, you really think they know about anything beyond it being cool tech?

2

secret_aardvark_420 Mar 31, 2026 +2

Even then, is it really though?

2

Slinto69 Apr 1, 2026 +5

Yes, I mean objectively it is, if it wasn't a big deal no one would be mad at it and it'd just be being ignored.

5

WarmMelonWithAHole Apr 1, 2026

Hoop and stick was better.

0

Light_Error Apr 1, 2026 +1

They absolutely should not be feeding personal pictures or information to those models. People will let their guard down so easily.

1

VelociRapper92 Apr 1, 2026 +1

Older people love AI because they don’t understand the implications of it, they just see it as a new toy. Those of us who were raised on the internet know what this new technology can do and what it means for humanity.

1

Ok-Comfortable9449 Mar 31, 2026 +142

That's what I'm saying somebody told him bogus info about this and he said yes without even knowing what he signed up for

142

EagleLize Mar 31, 2026 +24

No doubt. How about " Someone has manipulated and taken advantage of Bob Dylan to launch AI created garbage".

24

FuckTheStateofOhio Mar 31, 2026 +54

This smells like someone defending a musician they like who has already sold out multiple times in his career and is doing something completely on brand.

54

soozerain Mar 31, 2026 +31

That’s what I’m saying. Anybody that’s been to a Bob Dylan show in the last 20 years knows the man doesn’t care if he rips off his fans.

31

Character-Ad-3164 Mar 31, 2026 +10

He purposely makes his songs unrecognizable now. They sound nothing like the originals. I had a horrible time at his show

10

NoPantsJake Mar 31, 2026 +7

Man, I had a great time seeing Bob Dylan last year. My expectations were low after I’d heard about past shows from friends, but he played a couple of classics and sounded pretty solid. I had a great time. My buddy did say it was way better than when he saw Dylan a couple years prior.

7

notevebpossible Mar 31, 2026 +7

Yeah, I saw him in Saratoga last summer, he sucked, but Willie Nelson was badass

7

Squalid_Hovel Mar 31, 2026 +6

I went to that tour. Willie’s voice was better than Dylan’s but at least Dylan is still able to play his instruments. Willie’s playing sounded like a child banging haphazardly on a guitar.

6

PawPawsLilStinker Mar 31, 2026 +2

I saw willy back in maybe 2008 and that's how he played back then.

2

UpsideTurtles Mar 31, 2026 +1

Willie’s voice was better than Bob’s? That’s crazy Willie’s voice was going out like a decade ago if not more lol maybe he gave up smoking

1

Squalid_Hovel Mar 31, 2026 +5

He sounded f****** terrific to me - especially given his age. Bob lost his voice in the 80s. After the cocaine and yelling of the Rolling Thunder tour, he wasn’t the same

5

ObscureRamenRecipes Mar 31, 2026 +1

He actually did give up smoking and now does only edibles.

1

pi0t3r Mar 31, 2026 +1

The arrangements of last year's rough and rowdy tour iteration were really good. Also, it helps if he plays in a theater with proper acoustics— he plays in a lot of converted movie palaces that don't carry sound well. If you saw him at the outlaw tour, then he's just messing about. The attendees at those concerts are all wasted and not really paying attention to anything anyway.

1

jhenryscott Mar 31, 2026 +5

He’s got a habit. Which yes I realize how insane that is at his age. But it doesn’t make it any less true. He gets roped into dumb shit all the time for money.

5

DazzlingCapital5230 Apr 1, 2026 +1

Like a current drug habit at 84? Sounds tiring

1

jhenryscott Apr 1, 2026 +1

Yeah man. It’s a shame but also incredibly wild.

1

Open-Addendum-9905 Apr 1, 2026 +1

Wait, what? Is this like common knowledge? Doing drugs at 84 is wild

1

starcraash666 Mar 31, 2026 +10

Agreed. Ask Bob to explain this thing he is doing, I guarantee he only partially understands any of it at best

10

TheLordofthething Mar 31, 2026 +13

I think he'd just tell you to f*** off, he's very prickly.

13

jhenryscott Mar 31, 2026 +1

Heroin will do that to you

1

Icy-Whale-2253 Mar 31, 2026 +1

Certainly not like he needs the money

1

persianx6_ Apr 1, 2026 +1

Private equity finally found Bob Dylan

1

Tokie-Dokie Mar 31, 2026 +203

Well this is a weird and disappointing final chapter in Dylan’s legacy.

203

Fuzzy-Butterscotch86 Mar 31, 2026 +141

He got busted a year or two ago selling fake autographs. First it came out the book he was selling for $600 wasn't actually signed. He sold 900 of them. So he made over half a million dollars selling fake autographs to fans. Then it came out he didn't actually sign anything since 2019, which means the art prints he sold a signed weren't actually signed. Some of those cost up to $15k. He had the nerve to blame covid, which, if you collect autographs at all you know private signings exploded during that time because it was the only safe way to get autographs while conventions were shut down. All he had to do was have a rep for Simon and Schuster mail him 900 insert pages or book plates. He could've signed them by himself and just mailed them back. He said he didn't think there was a difference between having a machine sign them, and doing it himself despite advertising the book as "hand signed". So to me, it's not at all surprising he doesn't think having a machine do the work for him is problematic.

141

laffing_is_medicine Mar 31, 2026 +53

Like he needs the f****** money…. wtf is wrong with people.

53

DokeyOakey Mar 31, 2026 +28

Greed! Greed is what is wrong with people.

28

[deleted] Mar 31, 2026 -4

[removed]

-4

UndertakerFred Mar 31, 2026 +30

His 2011 exhibition of “original paintings” at the Gagosian gallery in nyc included a bunch of blatantly plagiarized work. [link](https://archive.nytimes.com/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/questions-raised-about-dylan-show-at-gagosian/?ref=artsf)

30

Chulasaurus Mar 31, 2026 +23

I paid money to see him about a year and a half ago, and I’m not sure he even knew what songs he was playing anymore. It’s bad.

23

GrimaceGrunson Mar 31, 2026 +18

We saw him live...I wanna say 5 years back? He shuffled on stage, no acknowledgment to the audience at all, then played his set without pausing between songs so you really didn't know where one ended and the other began, then just left. It was the funniest concert I'd been to in a while, 5 stars.

18

TheLordofthething Mar 31, 2026 +18

I saw him 32 years ago and he was exactly the same. At one point he left the stage because people were singing along. Absolutely zero engagement, just mumbling.

18

Chulasaurus Mar 31, 2026 +10

I saw 92yo Willie Nelson that same day. Willie sits the whole show, and his son does most of the heavy lifting now in the band, but Willie was still telling jokes and stories in between songs, very personable guy. It was my third time seeing Dylan. My first time was in college in 2000, for $23. I’ll always remember it fondly because it was in that week between Election Day and the Supreme Court handing it to W. Come to think of it, Bob wasn’t a whole lot different back then, either.

10

Marhyc Mar 31, 2026 +4

The most interesting thing about his recent concerts was that one time he tripped on some cables and almost fell down, then told the audience to put down the phones

4

freddielovesdelilah Mar 31, 2026 +5

We saw him 2 years ago. His set was in between John Mellancamp and Willie Nelson. There was a woman sitting next to me who started snoring. She fell asleep his show was so boring. Most of us in attendance got up to use the bathroom, get drinks, or socialize until Willie Nelson’s performance. Both Willie Nelson and Mellancamp were amazing. Willie Nelson bought the house down. Idk what happened with Dylan. I think whoever planned the lineup put him on second to keep people from leaving.

5

Surroundedonallsides Mar 31, 2026 +3

That actually rivals the Primus show I went to a few years back after their most recent album release. Everyone in the audience wanted to just hear the handful of radio hits they did, but the band made an executive decision to play the entire new album instead. The audience was PISSED and booing and throwing things on stage before eventually just leaving the stadium. I sat on the balcony, enjoyed my $20 beer, and laughed and laughed and laughed. By the end there were just a handful of people on the floor while they finished up.

3

ThunkAsDrinklePeep Mar 31, 2026 +3

The Band is the best thing to come out of Dylan.

3

retrofrenchtoast Mar 31, 2026 +2

Back in the 90s I started writing to various places asking for autographed pictures. Whoever is in charge of that for Bob Dylan sent me a nice big picture with an autograph.

2

Icy-Whale-2253 Mar 31, 2026

I’m willing to believe he was deceived and it won’t last long.

0

Kind-Armadillo-2340 Mar 31, 2026 -141

Funny thing is people said similar stuff about him when he started playing electric guitar. Guy has always been interested in using new technology to create things.

-141

yinsled Mar 31, 2026 +85

Electric guitar was still him creating at least

85

Kind-Armadillo-2340 Mar 31, 2026 -6

🤷‍♂️ most people here haven’t created something interesting with AI. It’s not like you just give it a two sentence prompt. It’s just another tool that enables you something to make that you couldn’t before.

-6

lynchcontraideal Mar 31, 2026 +70

Playing electric guitar and pushing AI slop are not the same equivalence at all. Nothing similar or funny here.

70

Kind-Armadillo-2340 Mar 31, 2026 -6

People were equally as pissed when he started playing electric guitar. People really hated it, and he just ignored it.

-6

Suggested_rndom_name Mar 31, 2026 +30

Comparing the electric guitar to AI slop is certainly a choice

30

Kind-Armadillo-2340 Mar 31, 2026 -3

Lots of similarities. People similarly hated the electric guitar back then, because it wasn’t “real music”.

-3

Suggested_rndom_name Mar 31, 2026 +4

The delusion of the uncreative

4

NotTaken-username Mar 31, 2026 +20

At least he wasn’t pushing AI slop back then and made real art

20

Kind-Armadillo-2340 Mar 31, 2026

People said the same thing when he started playing electric guitar.

0

MonstersAtOurDoor Mar 31, 2026 +12

What a braindead comparison, lol

12

jingowatt Mar 31, 2026 +14

Worst take imaginable.

14

sooper_dooperest Mar 31, 2026 +47

r/aboringdystopia 😕

47

pperdecker Mar 31, 2026 +18

[Taking the Eli Cash route.](https://youtu.be/BvuhazMDpeg?si=TgG9F-zLs_gfkU4W)

18

chutes_toonarrow Mar 31, 2026 +3

I wish I could upvote this twice

3

Apprehensive_Emu9588 Mar 31, 2026 +3

Wildcattin...

3

b_l_a_h_d_d_a_h Mar 31, 2026 +2

fantastic

2

Sad-Appeal976 Mar 31, 2026 +60

People have no idea how much Bob Dylan sucks as a human being

60

Belligerent-J Mar 31, 2026 +18

Please elaborate, I've begun scratching the surface. My friend who likes him said his live shows were always a coin flip of he'd be too drunk to play well or not

18

Youthsonic Mar 31, 2026 +8

It's not exhaustive, but the hit parade deep dive into early Dylan did a lot to demystify him for me. https://pca.st/episode/bad79fd4-f1d0-4b25-b2ed-36722f8ad49d

8

Thetallguy1 Mar 31, 2026 +2

Thanks!

2

LaylaHarvey Mar 31, 2026 +5

Chalamet playing him in his sanitized biopic suddenly makes so much sense.

5

qiaocao187 Mar 31, 2026 -8

When was the last time YOU went to the opera or ballet? I like both types of art and it’s true, they’re both dying. He may have been shitty about it but he didn’t tell a lie.

-8

LaylaHarvey Mar 31, 2026 +4

What? We’re talking about Bob Dylan.

4

qiaocao187 Mar 31, 2026 -6

YOU brought up chalamet.

-6

LaylaHarvey Mar 31, 2026 +1

Right. One mediocre, poser white boy playing another. What’s that to do with ballet?

1

qiaocao187 Mar 31, 2026 -7

Your first message would imply it makes sense chalamet is playing a shitty human being because chalamet is a shitty human being as well. Otherwise your post makes zero f****** sense.

-7

LaylaHarvey Mar 31, 2026 +7

That you, Timmy?

7

DazzlingCapital5230 Apr 1, 2026 +5

You are wildly off topic, and very rude for someone who is so wrong lol.

5

qiaocao187 Apr 1, 2026

“You are wildly off topic despite me bringing up someone totally unrelated” god you’re annoying.

0

DazzlingCapital5230 Apr 1, 2026 +3

I didn’t bring anyone up, just an observer who is startled by your rudeness lol.

3

DtheAussieBoye Mar 31, 2026 +2

Most musicians do. Anyone who says they don’t listen to any shitheads is a complete liar

2

ElectrOPurist Mar 31, 2026 +13

The subscribers are exclusively music journalists.

13

stringohbean Mar 31, 2026 +37

I guess the check for making a song for the Ronald Reagan movie wasn’t enough… F*** this guy

37

Neither_Transition_7 Mar 31, 2026 +14

Did he really?!

14

dandle Mar 31, 2026 +22

"Making" is a strong word, but Dylan did cover a Cole Porter song for the soundtrack to the Reagan propaganda flick. That enough was a shitty thing to do.

22

Neither_Transition_7 Mar 31, 2026 +2

Wow, what the heck?! Really strange

2

dandle Mar 31, 2026 +2

Very strange. According to Dennis (Right-wing Sack of Dogshit) Quaid, they just reached out to Bob and asked whether he would be willing to contribute a song for the propaganda piece if they gave him total artistic control over the work. Bob agreed. Maybe Bob really liked *Innerspace* or something.

2

muscleLAMP Mar 31, 2026 +8

Bob, NO! No, Bob, no!

8

SabrinoRogerio Mar 31, 2026 +4

Tá passando fome, Bob?

4

TommyJohnSurgery420 Mar 31, 2026 +7

Bob Dylan's handlers you mean. That MF is in his mid 80s there's no way he's behind this.

7

Alien_Overlords Mar 31, 2026 +21

What a sell-out.

21

Long-Region5088 Mar 31, 2026 +2

If you’re gonna do ai, this is how you do it

2

mikezer0 Apr 1, 2026 +2

I’m a huge Bob fan. I’ve seen him a few times. One time a few years ago actually I was buying a ticket at the box office. The lady working I was talking to mentioned she’d been in the industry a long time. Worked for the Dead for a long time met a lot of folks… Naturally I asked “have you ever met Bob?” “Yes and he’s a total a******!” She was a cool down to earth older lady who had met him a few times and had to let it be known … not a cool hang at all lol but great music of course

2

ChainChompBigMoney Apr 1, 2026 +2

Bob Dylan, one of the most famous musicians ever, playing small theaters and opening for Willie Nelson tells me he hasn't made alot of good decisions in his life.

2

nobodysartinshadow Mar 31, 2026 +3

Is this news AI-generated?

3

catgotcha Mar 31, 2026 +3

Sorry what - this isn't on my bingo card!

3

DtheAussieBoye Mar 31, 2026 +7

Alright, who's going to say that Bob Dylan was actually overrated or never good (he's forever one of the best to do it, this dumb AI shit that probably isn't even his idea doesn't change that)

7

Elementium Mar 31, 2026 +21

This is what bugs me most about the Internet these days. People are revealed as shitty and suddenly everyone believes theyre talentless hacks. They WANT to rewrite history to punish assholes. It's not great.

21

erexcalibur Mar 31, 2026 +6

It's more a problem of people not knowing how to separate art from the artist. So the art they acclaim can only be produced by good people, the moment people do something bad their art must be invalidated in every possible way. Look at the way people overanalyze Harry Potter to justify that Rowling is a horrible person.

6

Zhuul Mar 31, 2026 +1

Joke's on you, I always thought he sounded like Goofy with a sinus infection

1

DtheAussieBoye Apr 1, 2026 +1

You say that like it’s a bad thing

1

FrigginRan Apr 1, 2026 +1

“nooooo you cant not be a fan he is the best ever if you hate him you are just jumping on the hate train everyone needs to love him!” I was never a fan 🗿

1

imaginary0pal Mar 31, 2026 +1

I can get that on ao3 for free

1

zestychickenbowl2024 Mar 31, 2026

I thought he died already

0

Oz347 Mar 31, 2026 -3

Okay terrible sure but calling bob dylan “the ‘like a rolling stone’ songwriter” is crazy as f*** lol

-3

dick-cricket Mar 31, 2026 +9

I mean, he did wrire the song.

9

lotep Mar 31, 2026 +11

Because?

11

WobblierTube733 Mar 31, 2026 +1

The guy who made the worse version of ‘all along the watchtower’

1

DtheAussieBoye Mar 31, 2026 +6

Okay but his Watchtower is still f****** great

6

WobblierTube733 Mar 31, 2026 -1

You’re entitled to that opinion

-1

noturaveragesenpaii Mar 31, 2026

God forbid Dylan isnt f****** *PERFECT* for basement-dwelling, fart-sniffing, mostly unemployed, hive-minded listnookors.

0

KillTonyRegular Mar 31, 2026

Cause Bob Dylan's gonna die Before we can make him AI And if he grew up today He'd probably be loaded on SSRIs

0

Harvey_Rabbit Mar 31, 2026 -36

I would find it interesting to hear what Bob Dylan could come up with using AI. His choice of what historically figures to use or what to prompt it to write about would be different than most people.

-36

mosi_moose Mar 31, 2026 +9

He probably has some Gen Z kid writing the prompts. Not sure exactly when he lost his soul, but it’s been gone for a while. https://variety.com/2022/music/news/bob-dylan-regrets-autopen-signatures-art-books-apology-1235442296/

9

Bob Dylan is selling AI-generated historical fan-fiction. The “Like a Rolling Stone” songwriter has launched a Patreon to regale fans with fictional AI monologues by historical figures for $5 a month.

💬 Send a Message

115 Comments