Music & audio AI-assisted

Now and Then

The last Beatles song, finished from a 1970s John Lennon demo after machine learning separated his voice from the piano.

By: The Beatles
Year: 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Category: Music & audio
Purpose: Entertainment, Culture & preservation
Degree of AI: AI-assisted
Tools: MAL (stem separation)

Where the human came in

Nothing was generated. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr recorded new parts, George Harrison's 1995 guitar was kept, and Giles Martin produced the mix.

Why it is not slop

AI as a restoration tool, used only to recover something that already existed. The clearest case of technology serving the work.

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Seed entry: written from public sources and awaiting editorial review.

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