Jim Stone, Freelance Journalist

AI REGENERATED CLASSIC MUSIC

Who have I noticed seriously recently? How about the classic song "Operator" by Jim Croce? Tell HER I'm fine was replaced by Tell 'em I'm fine. BEE GEES: How deep is your love got changed from "I really need to know" to "I really need to learn." And sometimes it is not so obvious. But on a lot of Michael Jackson tunes, the sparkle is gone and decades ago I noticed Billy Jean had a mastering error that caused the bass to distort on ONE repeated note (in the beginning of the song, the initial riff) they had one of the notes in the sequence with distortion on it, and the AI's miss that and don't put that back in. And Michael Jackson has no sparkle at all when the AI does the song.

The Pink Floyd flower F*** scene has been gutted, with only fakes in its place. That was masterfully done (many floyd parties, I know that scene well) and ALL OF THEM you can find now are not original, not even close, both the audio and video are faked down to crap because there was simply too much truth in that scene and it HAD TO be destroyed. I'd really like to find an old VHS of that ...

AC/DC sounds smooth and lost it's grit. And it is not the compression, it is the result of having an AI listen to AC/DC and then regenerate the song the way someone wants it rather than as it was. I don't know if this is being done to skirt the copyright guidelines, or if it is being done to falsify history but it is happening, if you have noticed the songs are not quite the same anymore it is not only you.