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Nobody Cares If Music Is Real Anymore
In that sense, it signifies the fate of music that is streamed online and then imbibed while one drives, cooks, cleans, works ...
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AI “Band” The Velvet Sundown Is An “Art Hoax” Created With Suno, Spokesperson Admits
Perhaps you, too, have had the displeasure of stumbling across the Velvet Sundown on Spotify or social media. The psych-rock ...
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The Velvet Sundown Cracks One Million Spotify Monthly Listeners Amid Publicity Storm — How High Will the ‘Synthetic Music Project’ Climb?
A blitz of media coverage has now propelled The Velvet Sundown past one million Spotify monthly listeners. Meanwhile, an ...
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'We're AI,' popular indie rock band admits
An indie rock band with more than a million monthly listeners on Spotify has owned up to being an AI-generated music project ...
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The Velvet Sundown Confirm Their Music Is AI-Generated
The Velvet Sundown, who we suspected were an AI-generated band, have admitted to being an AI-generated band. The statement ...
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UMG's Michael Nash on The Velvet Sundown, ethical AI and artist tools at the AI For Good summit
Universal Music Group’s EVP and chief digital officer Michael Nash has delivered a keynote speech on UMG, AI and music at 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 ...
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 ...