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Chart-Topping Rock Band With Over One Million Listeners Is Revealed to be Totally AI-Generated originally appeared on Parade. AI tools have, for better or for worse, become an almost normalized part ...
There is little that is brilliant or exciting about the extent to which generative AI is now throwing one fake act after another into the ...
The Velvet Sundown quickly racked up Spotify listeners and playlists inclusions, but the band isn't what it seems.
Millions of streams – and an avalanche of publicity – later, is “synthetic music project” The Velvet Sundown facing a ...
"Not quite human. Not quite machine. The Velvet Sundown lives somewhere in between," the band's creator wrote in their ...
In a matter of weeks, alternative band The Velvet Sundown quite literally went from zero to hero, appearing out of nowhere ...
This isn’t a trick – it’s a mirror. An ongoing artistic provocation designed to challenge the boundaries of authorship, ...
AI-generated musicians are becoming increasingly popular on streaming platforms, to the extent that you might be listening to ...
In the indie-rock space, the defining example of this phenomenon for me is the Los Angeles group Lord Huron. Formed in 2010, ...
A band called The Velvet Sundown has launched a debut album on Spotify, and the group has quickly racked up over a million ...
Faced with growing criticism, the band defended themselves on their X account Velvet Sundown (The Real Band Not The AI Band): ...
The band’s Spotify bio has been updated with an honest description of what the project is, while their listener count ...