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All Things Must Beat. Share Anything Beatles!!

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Michedelic said:
Paul has second thoughts…
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Paul McCartney Reverses Opinion on AI After Using It to Produce New "Beatles" Song, Now Alarmed It Will "Wipe Out" the Music Industry — Futurism

White Knight Despite using artificial intelligence tools to help resuscitate old John Lennon vocals, Paul McCartney is now, apparently, against some AI uses. As the Guardian reports, the benighted Beatle has issued a statement ahead of the UK parliament's debate over amending its data bill to...
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G-Dog said:
IIRC, AI was only used used to "clean up" the noise from John's home cassette tape. It was NOT used in the generative process of the new group recording. That's a big difference.
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Michedelic said:
That’s what the article in the link
reports(you read it, right?), but that’s not the point.
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Actually, I think using AI generative features, versus noise suppression such as for Now And Then, is very much the point here! The Dolby noise suppression process never had a music generation function, so nobody ever complained that it could displace beginning musicians. It's very much the generative features of AI that are the new perceived threat.

In fact, I take issue with calling it an "AI-assisted track" being misleading in this case. It's no more artificial, or threatening, than any Dolby-assisted or ProTools-assisted track!
 
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darev said:
My wife and I play a game every year (OK, I play it and she entertains me). Whomever hears "Wonderful Christmastime" first must tell the other one: "I lost Christmas", meaning "I heard that bloody song this year. SH3t." I found that It's not difficult to avoid that song as long as one avoids going into any shopping area for the next 5 weeks.
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We both just lost Christmas when Paul popped up at the end of the SNL Christmas Special.

Next year
 
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The Beatles in the 60s walking down a street. Probably for a photo shoot.
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zontar said:
The Beatles in the 60s walking down a street. Probably for a photo shoot.
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The photo that probably inspired the larger-than-life Beatles Statue(s?) in Liverpool, with some artistic license taken.

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(Unless she's a hobbit!)

Or did the artist use this version of the photo and swap Paul & George's positions?

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McCartney played his original (lost-found-restored) Höfner 500/1 for the first time in a public show. And Ringo joined the band onstage.

www.theguardian.com

Paul McCartney reunites with Ringo Starr at London concert

Former Beatles bandmates perform together at O2 Arena in final show of McCartney’s Got Back tour
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zontar said:
The Beatles in the 60s walking down a street. Probably for a photo shoot.
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That is actually outside the President Hotel by Russel Square in London, that’s where they used to stay the first times they where in London.

My wife and I stayed in that hotel during our honeymoon trip in August 1987. Did not know about the Beatles connection when we booked the hotel…
 
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