Marie Gicquel / Photo credit: WALTER SHENSON FILMS / PROSCENIU / COLLECTION CHRISTOPHEL VIA AFP 09:43, 07 June 2023

53 years after their separation, the Beatles sing together again... thanks to artificial intelligence. With the help of AI, fans recreated songs with voices similar to those of Paul McCartney and John Lennon, to achieve a result as impressive as it is disturbing.

Some musical notes that are likely to make a lot of talk. Thanks to artificial intelligence, fans have resurrected a legendary group: the Beatles. She recreated songs with voices similar to those of Paul McCartney - rejuvenated - and John Lennon, assassinated in 1980. Two tracks recreated on a McCartney song from 2013, an unreal duet from beyond the grave.

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The issue of exploitation rights pending

"As the Beatles released us, 'Nothing is real', nothing is real," philosopher Jacques Volcouve, historian of the Beatles, who still seems mixed. "It's so exciting, so exciting at the same time, it's fundamentally disturbing. It calls into question creative talent: one could imagine that Mozart is no longer exceptional since artificial intelligence can do the same thing," he explains.

This technological feat, little framed by the law, also presents the risk of diverting some titles that are not Beatles. "Sony Music manages the music of The Beatles. I think Sony Music would be entitled to attack [the authors of this approach, editor's note] and they do not hesitate when something goes wrong? They go all out and they are right," adds the historian. The last two boys in the wind, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, did not react.