Most artists are speaking against artificial intelligence these days, but Paul McCartney decided to embrace this trend. After announcing he’s trying to craft a final song by The Beatles with the help of AI, the iconic singer cleared some confusion surrounding this project.
Earlier this month, McCartney told Radio 4’s Today Programme that he extracted John Lennon’s vocals from an old demo track with the help of AI technology. He didn’t reveal the name of the song in question, but it’s most likely he was talking about the 1978 track “Now and Then”.
Fans of the iconic British band weren’t too crazy about the idea of using AI to revive their sound. After receiving intense backlash, McCartney took to social media to address speculations surrounding this project and said it won’t be a classic AI-generated song.
“Seems to be a lot of guess work out there. Can’t say too much at this stage but to be clear, nothing has been artificially or synthetically created. It’s all real and we all play on it. We cleaned up some existing recordings – a process which has gone on for years,” wrote McCartney on Twitter.
McCartney also said that he finds the process of using artificial intelligence to make music “scary”, adding that we’ll just have to see where it leads because “it’s the future.”
