Bruno Mars is an anti-slop machine at SoFi Stadium

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Set us as preferred If anyone’s career is at risk from the coming AI jobpocalypse, it would seem to be Bruno Mars’.For close to two decades, this crowd-pleasing pop superstar has been topping charts and gobbling up Grammys with detailed recreations of an ever-expanding array of past musical styles.Think of him as a large language model trained on the complete works of the Isley Brothers and James Brown, Earth, Wind & Fire and Lionel Richie and New Edition, among many other pathbreakers.

Mars goes into the studio equipped with his vast knowledge base and comes out with an exquisitely crafted tune like the 1970s Philly soul homage “Leave the Door Open” or the Police-ish reggae-rock of “Locked Out of Heaven,” to name just two of the 22 hits he’s put inside the Top 10 of Billboard’s Hot 100 since 2010.At the moment, of course, he’s generously rewarded for his talent.But surely the folks at Suno and Udio — prompt-based AI apps that spit out “newly” “created” “songs” to a user’s specifications — could do what Mars does for a fraction of the cost, right?“This ain’t sweat — it’s tears,” the singer said as he dabbed his face with a towel midway through his concert Wednesday night at Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium.

Mars was playing up the lover man’s dejection in his song “Why You Wanna Fight?,” which he neatly segued into a medley of R&B classics including the Chi-Lites’ “Oh Girl” and Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On.” Yet you could imagine him weeping over the future that might be in store for old-school record makers like him (not least given that Udio recently struck a licensing deal with Mars’ own record company).Except that Mars, unlike an app, can also do it live.The first of five SoFi dates on a yearlong world tour behind his album “The Romantic,” Wednesd...