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Of course, it may just be an art prank,” we wrote about AI band The Velvet Sundown earlier this week. A new interview suggests it is.
A mysterious band called “The Velvet Sundown” has exploded onto streaming platforms likeSpotify, racking up nearly a million streams in just a few weeks with a 60s rock-inspired ...
A mysterious band called “The Velvet Sundown” has exploded onto streaming platforms like Spotify, racking up nearly a million ...
As an AI band goes viral on Spotify, a former employee at the streaming juggernaut says the platform has “no protections” ...
"The Velvet Sundown" has more than 700,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, but their entire album is being accused of being AI ...
A spokesperson for The Velvet Sundown has admitted the 'band' is a deliberate “art hoax" using generative-AI platform Suno.
Perhaps you, too, have had the displeasure of stumbling across the Velvet Sundown on Spotify or social media. The psych-rock “band” made headlines last month after they’d amassed hundreds of thousands ...
The Velvet Sundown, a supposed indie band, has shot up Spotify charts with AI-generated music and images, blurring the line ...
The Velvet Sundown has nearly 600,000 monthly Spotify listeners, but the band doesn't exist. Here's how to identify ...
The group in question is The Velvet Sundown, whom Louder Than Sound notes has released two albums worth of music and garnered more than half a million followers on Spotify. But that’s about all they ...
Things that are fake have sometimes even more impact than things that are real,” a band spokesperson tells Rolling Stone ...
A mysterious new band is climbing the charts on Spotify, racking up over half a million listens in just a few days. The ...