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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, ...
“It’s marketing. It’s trolling”: The Velvet Sundown are an AI-generated ‘art hoax’
According to (someone claiming to be) ‘band’ spokesperson and 'adjunct member' Andrew Frelon, the whole thing is an ‘art hoax ...
How a Canadian's AI hoax duped the media and propelled a 'band' to streaming success
A Canadian who duped journalists in an elaborate hoax involving Spotify, AI and a suspicious rock band says he apologizes to ...
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 ...
AI claims and a hoax spokesman: Viral band confuses the world of music
The Velvet Sundown has racked up hundreds of thousands of streams on Spotify - without anyone even being sure if it's real.
Mysterious band The Velvet Sundown soars in popularity, fuelling AI music debate
A mysterious rock band that may not be a band at all has soared in popularity on music streaming sites, raising fresh ...
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 ...
The Velvet Sundown’s shaggy retro-rock has attracted 750,000 listeners — but is it all an AI hoax?
The band supposedly behind two new albums of 1970s-style AOR have proved impossible to track down in real life ...