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Rock Band with More Than 1 Million Monthly Spotify Listeners Reveals Itself as AI Project, Including Its Musicians
Popular rock band The Velvet Sundown, which has amassed more than 1 million monthly listeners on Spotify, has been revealed to be an AI project ...
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Is The Velvet Sundown a real band? Spotify's top rock band admits to being generated by AI after gaining 1M listeners
On Saturday, July 5, an indie rock band called The Velvet Sundown admitted to be AI-generated and not a real one through a social media post and by also updating its Spotify bio.
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AI ‘band’ The Velvet Sundown draws criticism from listeners, real musicians
Controversial AI-generated band The Velvet Sundown has sparked growing concern among musicians and listeners alike as it ...
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AI “Band” The Velvet Sundown Is An “Art Hoax” Created With Suno, Spokesperson Admits
Perhaps you, too, have had the displeasure of stumbling across the Velvet Sundown on Spotify or social media. The psych-rock ...
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How a Canadian's AI hoax duped the media and propelled a 'band' to streaming success | CBC News
Certain that The Velvet Sundown was generated by AI, and surprised by its seemingly overnight success, he decided to become the band's de-facto publicist as a "social engineering" experiment.
Apple and Spotify are sleepwalking into an AI music crisis – and The Velvet Sundown mess shows they need to act fast
In fact, The Velvet Sundown is one of a number of recent ‘bands’ that have exposed a massive loophole in the big music ...
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