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The Velvet Sundown Band Admits They're AI After Weeks of Speculation
MUMBAI, INDIA, JUL 11 – Trilok blends Indian spiritual themes with AI-driven rock music, aiming to innovate pop culture; Collective Media Network leads this unique AI-powered musical experiment.
- On July 5, The Velvet Sundown acknowledged that they are an AI-driven music endeavor overseen by human creative input and supported by artificial intelligence.
- This admission followed weeks of speculation fueled by the band's mysterious lack of interviews, AI-like music style, and a hoax spokesperson named Andrew Frelon.
- The band released their album Floating on Echoes on June 5, featuring the well-liked song Dust on the Wind, which has garnered over 1.3 million plays and appeared on viral charts in multiple countries.
- By July, they had gained over 1.2 million monthly listeners on Spotify and explained that all characters, songs, vocals, and lyrics were uniquely developed using AI technologies as part of their creative process.
- This case highlights challenges in music caused by AI, sparking debate on authenticity, cultural appropriation, and regulatory need as AI-generated works gain mainstream success.
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Getty ImagesWas the recent Velvet Sundown phenomenon a great music and media hoax, a sign of things to come, or just another example of what’s already happening ? In case you missed it, the breakout act was streamed hundreds of thousands of times before claims emerged the band and their music were products of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). Despite the “band” insisting they were real, an “associate” later admitted it was indeed an “a…
A legendary recording session triumphs as a theatrical material. At the same time, the sound of the rock era is completely simulated by AI, as The Velvet Sundown shows. Why are bands still so fascinating that the digital world can't do without it?
The Velvet Sundown has had more than a million listeners in a month, just on Spotify. A priori, there's nothing suspicious, but there's something to question. The photos are generated by IA and on the Internet, no information is visible about the band members. These musics are everywhere, every day, 20,000 new songs of this kind are posted on Deezer. (New technologies).
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