It's been weird finding out how many people don't see media past its finished surface text. People for whom the subtext of its creation is so unimportant that the concepts of coming up with a prompt and creating a work are mutually fungible.

Yep.

Earlier today I pointed someone toward Sade's song Young Lion.

It's a really good song all on it's own.

But if you take time to not only listen and understand the lyrics, but to find out the backstory of who she wrote that song for and why, it's a much more powerful story and a way more meaningful song.

AI can't make me feel that way. You can't have empathy with the author if there is no author. Whoever prompted some AI song/story/movie is more like the editor or producer than an author, and Sade's song can't make me feel empathy for her band or recording engineer.

Well, Death of the Author has been a concept for quite a while. How it's made and what the author intended is explicitly not a concern for a lot of criticism and analysis.