I revived an 1820s sea shanty with AI, and it’s a banger

# AI Helped Revive a 200-Year-Old Lost Sea Shanty A writer used AI music-generating tools to recreate a melody for an 1820s sea shanty whose original tune had been completely forgotten, successfully bringing the historic song back to life in a modern, listenable form. The project shows how AI can solve creative problems—in this case recovering lost cultural artifacts—rather than just replacing human creativity. It's a practical example of AI working alongside human judgment to accomplish something that would have been impossible otherwise.
My kids have been really into sea shanties lately (my family has eclectic musical tastes.) There are a surprisingly large number of modern shanties on YouTube and TikTok. But one historic song, The Wellermen, really spoke to me. Going down a rabbit hole of the song’s history, I learned that it
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