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"Spokesperson" for Viral AI Band The Velvet Sundown Admits He Was "Hoaxing the Media”

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A “spokesperson” for the viral AI band The Velvet Sundown has admitted that he was running a hoax aimed at “the media”. READ MORE: In the age of AI Oasis, there’s no point being ordinary It follows reports being shared last week that a seemingly AI-generated band had managed to rack up hundreds of thousands of monthly Spotify listeners in a very short period. Little was known about the group, but in less than a month, they managed to accumulate…

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The latest Artificial Intelligence controversy affects the world of music by a group called The Velvet Sundown, of which no one knows anything, who its components are or when it was created, but which already has 937,686 monthly listeners in Spotify. It is not even clear if the group has been generated by AI, something that Deezer, one of Spotify's rival platforms, claims that its AI detection tool considers that 100 percent of the group's music…

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BBC News broke the news in United Kingdom on Thursday, July 3, 2025.
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