The Beatles won Grammy on Sunday night, nearly 55 years after the celebrity band collapsed, thanks to little help from artificial intelligence.
The band's song, now and then, released in November 2023, has made history because it is the first song with the help of AI, which was taken by Grammy. The song, which won the best rock performance, beat Pearl Jamm, St. Vincent, black keys and idle things.
“Now and Then” was nominated for a record of the year, but lost to Kendrick Lamar's “not like us”.
The song It features a pre -unbeaten recording of the late Johnon Lennon singing and playing piano. Lennon's wife, Yoko Ono, shared the footage with the rest of the Beatles after his death.
Using advanced learning software, engineers were able to isolate Lennon's voice from the piano track. Over the years, Paul McCartney, Ringo Star and the late George Harrison have worked on the song, eventually adding their parts to create a new song containing all four members of the band.
Before the song's release, McCartney tweet: “… Nothing is artificial or synthetically created. Everything is real and we all play on it. We have cleaned some existing shots – a process that has been going on for years.”
Although AI was used in production, it fits into the Grammy Instructionswho say that “only human creators have the right” and that work with “elements of AI material” is allowed in certain categories.
The victory comes at a time when the music industry is dealing with defining the proper use of AI and how it can affect the creativity and authenticity of music production. Recognition also points out how Ai's song can cause innovation and creative expression while respecting artists' legacy. AI is increasingly used in the music industry, although not everyone supports it.
A 12-minute short film For now and then follows McCartney, Star and Harrison in 1994, while uniting to work on the track. But after Harrison's death in 2001, the song was largely untouched by 2022.
Lennon's son, John, told the film that he had been moved from the process of his father's voice part of the Beatles' new song.
“My father would like it, because he was never shy to experiment with recording technology,” John said. “I think it's really nice.”