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Spotify’s latest breakout band The Velvet Sundown appears to be AI-generated – and fans aren’t happy
Original story follows: Dust on the Wind, Drift Beyond the Flame, and End the Pain, are all songs by the hot new band The ...
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That Velvet Sundown X account that we thought was fake… was fake
It would be very funny if the angry rebuttal tweets already featuring in a new wave of articles today turn out to be from a ...
AI-generated band “The Velvet Sundown” hits 500K Spotify listens in one month, and music fans are furious
Not enough music people are actually paying attention to this Velvet Sundown situation. The future of streaming services is ...
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 ...
What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: 'The Velvet Sundown' and AI Music
The Velvet Sundown has nearly 600,000 monthly Spotify listeners, but the band doesn't exist. Here's how to identify ...
Nobody Cares If Music Is Real Anymore
As I drove amid the cornfields on I-90, the Velvet Sundown did just that. The band’s tracks were not satisfying in any way, ...
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The Velvet Sundown, the band created by AI that keeps growing: why non-existent musicians have gone viral
The group already has 750,000 monthly listeners on Spotify in just one month of existence with two albums and a third one on ...
An indie band is blowing up on Spotify, but people think its AI
An indie psych rock band has amassed more than 850,000 listeners on Spotify in a matter of weeks and generated buzz ...