Music and AI (the new Beatles song) \ stacker news ~meta

As a musician, I thought I was adamantly against any AI-generated "music", and when I saw the following headline, my immediate reaction was disgust:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/oct/26/the-beatles-final-song-now-and-then-ai-technology

but then I read the article, and the "AI" component seems to simply be a shameless invocation of a buzzword from my perspective; they just isolated the vocals and piano that were on a demo cassette tape, and mixed those vocals into a Beatles-produced song. that sort of audio-processing technique has been around for years, and to call it "AI" seems like a stretch. Perhaps the "polishing" they did to the vocal and piano tracks is more novel and complex, and I'm just being naive.

I still don't know how I feel about this type of post-mortem production, but I doubt it's a money-grab thing (well maybe it is for Apple) ... I'd like to think this one is being done by the surviving artists for the fans. (though apparently George Harrison called Lennon's demo "fucking rubbish", so who knows...)

Any one else here have any opinions or further info on this type of thing?

42 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 27 Oct 2023

I don't know how I feel about AI music but as a mediocre vocalist at best if AI can make me sound like a hybrid of Roy Orbison and Chris Cornell it would be pretty freaking awesome.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @owleyedapprentice OP 28 Oct 2023

okay, touche ... i'd love to hear what that hybrid sounded like ...

i can see AI used for processing effects being an incredible asset as a tool / toy to play with, so long as it's not used as a crutch. that's where the big red flags are.