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How a Canadian’s AI hoax duped the media and propelled a ’band’ to streaming success
A man using the pseudonym Andrew Frelon posed as the spokesperson for a band called The Velvet Sundown — which he later said he had no involvement with — creating a media frenzy that propelled the ...
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"Indie Band" Says Claims Their Music Is AI-Generated Is a Hoax, Then Admits It's Actually AI-Generated
After an "indie rock band" called The Velvet Sundown refused to admit that its output was AI slop, the outfit is now singing ...
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 ...
‘Spokesperson’ for AI ‘Band’ Velvet Sundown Now Says He Is an Imposter
Things that are fake have sometimes even more impact than things that are real,” a band spokesperson tells Rolling Stone ...
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 ...
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The Velvet Sundown Plot Thickens: Alleged AI ‘Band’ Says ‘Our Music Is 100% Human-Made’ as Spotify Monthly Listeners Top 600,000
The Velvet Sundown plot is thickening, as the allegedly AI-powered “band” has topped 550,000 Spotify monthly listeners and ...