Paul McCartney explained to BBC Radio 4 that he used artificial intelligence to turn a demo of John Lennon into a final song for The Beatles. Artificial intelligence was used to add Lennon’s voice to a finished composition. McCartney says the piece will be released later this year.
McCartney did not name the song. However, it is believed to be “Now and Then”, a love song that Lennon composed in 1978.
The inspiration for the song came from his work on the Peter Jackson documentary Get Back, in which artificial intelligence separates the Beatles’ voices from instruments and other voices. McCartney says the technology provides “a kind of loophole” for producing songs.
To date, music companies have generally disliked AI due to copyright conflicts. The creators used algorithms to get famous artists to “sing” songs they never actually produced. The best example of this was Drake.
But this work is a little different… McCartney uses artificial intelligence to save a piece that would otherwise not reach the public. At the same time, we’re not talking about a song that didn’t exist, but a song that actually existed but wasn’t released. In other examples, a song that did not exist was performed by a real artist.
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