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Paul McCartney says AI was used to create new Beatles song, which will be released this year

Paul McCartney says there will be a new Beatles record created with help from artificial intelligence. McCartney, one of the two living Beatles, said AI was used to extricate the late John Lennon's vocals from a previously recorded track.

During an interview with BBC Radio, McCartney, 80, was asked about how AI has been used to replicate his young voice and even "bring voices back from the grave," by mimicking the late John Lennon and George Harrison.

"It's a very interesting thing," McCartney said. "It's something we're all sort of tackling at the moment in terms of trying to deal with what's it mean." He admitted he's not on the internet much but he has heard of AI-produced tracks that use the former band members' voices.

"All of that is kind of scary, but it's the future" he said, adding it has great uses. AI is technology that mimics human intelligence. Machines learn how to perform tasks like create music, write reports and generate art. Common AI platforms like ChatGPT answers questions and completes tasks with incredible accuracy. But AI is not without its critics, who point to a variety of ethical issues linked to the controversial technology.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/beatles-ai-song-paul-mccartney-final-record-released-this-year/

I wonder if the estates agreed to this.

Either way, this is going to be insane.

To quote the meme that hit the nail on the head, "humans still performing menial labor while robots have time to paint and write poetry is not the timeline I signed up for."

Im okay with it if its just filling in some missing spots in a largely complete unreleased track.

Like they didnt have a way to replicate Johns voice but had everything else.

But mostly as long as sounds good. I bet they have some good shit recorded that just needs vocals.

That's pretty fascinating. They should have just released it without revealing that to make people believe John is actually alive and it was a conspiracy.

it would be one thing if none of the people involved were related in any sort of way to the band.

but it's one of the OG members we're talking about...

Less of that, more of this pls:
https://youtu.be/7zoQeH2wQFM

Just listen to The Rutles

Starks posted...

I wonder if the estates agreed to this.

Either way, this is going to be insane.

McCartney owns all the rights to the music. I think as long as he only trained the AI on the Beatles music and not the solo stuff or other things then it's probably legal if morally questionable.

Is this going to be what music is going forward?

Ridiculous