I'm near tears. I just listened to the AI-constructed Beatles song, Now and Then. Built from recovered vocals, new tracks, and some machine learning that may or may not have artificially created John Lennon's voice, the single is unmistakably Beatles, and also the most haunting (or haunted) thing I've listened to in ages. I blame AI, I blame the surviving Beatles, and I blame my easily manipulated heart.
I grew up listening to the Beatles. Sure, the band broke up when I was still in grade school but the quad of Liverpool lads continued making Beatles-infused music well into the late 70s and, who knows, might've reunited had John Lennon not been violently taken from us in 1980.
