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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 ...
Rock band with more than 1 million Spotify listeners reveals it’s entirely AI-generated — down to the musicians themselves
This isn’t a trick – it’s a mirror. An ongoing artistic provocation designed to challenge the boundaries of authorship, ...
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India has a new AI band called Trilok – and its independent musicians aren’t pleased
Move over The Velvet Sundown, there’s a new virtual band in…cyberspace. Collective Media Network, a division of Indian talent ...
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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.
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AI hoax or art? The Velvet Sundown exposes music industry’s digital dilemma
The AI-generated band, The Velvet Sundown, hosted on Spotify, has sparked controversy over authenticity in music. Critics demand platform transparency and filters for AI-generated content ...
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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Spokesman Claiming to Represent AI Band the Velvet Sundown Reveals Himself as a Hoaxster
This week (July 2), someone calling themselves Andrew Frelon conducted an interview with Rolling Stone, calling the Velvet ...
What the Tech: AI impacts on music
AI is flooding the platforms like Spotify, and it’s making real money. Based on current royalty estimates, Velvet Sundown has ...