News

Gadget Review on MSN1h
When AI Bands Fool Half a Million Spotify Listeners
AI-generated band The Velvet Sundown fooled 500k Spotify listeners with fake personas, exposing streaming platform's ...
Daily Voice on MSN5h
AI-Created Band Steals Oldies Sound, Gains Millions Of Streams: 'Not Quite Human'
It's a case like Milli Vanilli's lip-syncing scandal of the 90s made for the artificial intelligence era. The Velvet Sundown ...
2oceansvibe6hOpinion
Three Albums In Six Weeks And A Million Monthly Listeners On Spotify – Is The Velvet Sundown The Soundtrack Of The Future?
The Velvet Sundown currently has over a million monthly listeners on Spotify, with their top track “Dust on the Wind ” having ...
Music Ally14h
India has a new AI band called Trilok – and its independent musicians aren’t pleased
Move over The Velvet Sundown, there’s a new virtual band in…cyberspace. Collective Media Network, a division of Indian talent ...
The new band that wasn't: AI created Velvet Sundown
Not bad for a band that didn't exist before June, and actually, doesn't really exist at all. Spotify has now changed the band ...
The new band that wasn't: Where the Velvet Sundown
When Velvet Sundown recently released its new album, it made a rapid rise through the Spotify charts and attracted nearly two million monthly listeners. Not bad for a band that didn't exist before ...
Velvet Sundown and the AI challenge of verifying "authenticity"
The viral Spotify "band" turned out to be an AI-generated art project, raising new questions for marketers about trust, ...