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Velvet Sundown and the AI challenge of verifying "authenticity"
The viral Spotify "band" turned out to be an AI-generated art project, raising new questions for marketers about trust, ...
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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Fabled 60s folk rock band that took charts by storm outed as an AI-generated group
A folk rock band that took the charts by storm has been outed as an AI “art hoax”. The Velvet Sundown released their debut ...
The Week contest: AI music
This week's question: Velvet Sundown, an AI-generated band that plays generic '70s country rock, is now racking more than 1 million listeners a month on Spotify. If the group were to release a rock ...
An indie band is blowing up on Spotify, but people think it's AI
An indie psych rock band has amassed more than 850,000 listeners on Spotify in a matter of weeks and generated buzz ...
Digital Music News on MSN6h
Will The Velvet Sundown Soon Face a Streaming Crackdown? DSP Hiccups Raise Questions As Spotify Monthly Listeners Top 1.18 Million
Millions of streams – and an avalanche of publicity – later, is “synthetic music project” The Velvet Sundown facing a ...
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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 ...
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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 ...