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Velvet Sundown: From AI Band to Art Hoax

Velvet Sundown, initially touted as an AI-driven band, has confessed to being an elaborate art hoax, sparking debate about AI's role in music and media manipulation. What started as a mysterious rise to Spotify fame has become a case study...

A ’60s-flavored band blew up on Spotify. They’re AI.
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The Velvet Sundown: An AI-Generated Band with Hundreds of Thousands of Spotify Streams

The music industry is facing a new challenge: AI-generated artists. The Velvet Sundown, a band suspected of being entirely AI-generated, has amassed hundreds of thousands of monthly listeners on Spotify, despite having virtually no online p...

"There's not a shred of evidence on the internet that this band has ever existed": This apparently AI-generated artist is racking up hundreds of thousands of Spotify streams