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Paul McCartney: AI has enabled a “final” Beatles song
- QiuChuck 3y agoFinally some good usage for AI.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y agoThis is a touching story and I hadn't been familiar with the details. To summarize, Now And Then (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_and_Then_(John_Lennon_song) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_and_Then_(John_Lennon_song...) had been recorded using cheap equipment (poor quality recording) by John Lennon and handed (on a cassette) to Paul McCartney by Yoko Ono after John Lennon passed away. A higher quality recording couldn't be made because John Lennon had passed but AI technology improvements have made it possible to isolate his voice for a different kind of recording. (The specific song is speculated but Now And Then is what's called out in the article.) It initially had me thinking this was "just the same thing" as 3D-model Carrie Fisher in Star Wars but, in this case, John Lennon's recorded voice was isolated from the cassette recording rather than a simulacrum of his voice being fabricated. It's an interesting twist on "but is it really $CELEBRITY?" that this is really John Lennon.
- infradig 3y agoHow is it a Beatles song without George's involvement, or indeed support? There's no reason to believe he would have changed his mind.
- tssva 3y agoThere are a number of Beatles songs which George Harrison was not a part of.
- Blackstrat 3y agoExploitation by McCartney. It’s not a Beatles song. It’s fundamentally nothing.
- basch 3y agoThe title of the cassette the vocals are pulled from is “For Paul.” I think it’s fair to say John intended to give this to Paul to work on.