US Edition"Spokesperson" for Viral AI Band The Velvet Sundown Admits He Was "Hoaxing the Media”
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"Spokesperson" for viral AI band The Velvet Sundown admits he was "hoaxing the media”
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…
Brett Abrahamsen | In Defense of The Velvet Sundown
The Velvet Sundown have been unfairly maligned. One suspects the near-unanimous hostility towards the band has everything to do with anti-AI sentiment and nothing to do with music. Objective listeners will undoubtedly appreciate the band’s moving anti-war laments, which at times recall Bob Dylan and Country Joe And The Fish (Freedom’s Song and Crimson Parade being […] The post Brett Abrahamsen | In Defense of The Velvet Sundown appeared first on…
AI claims and a hoax spokesman: Viral band confuses the world of music – Gina Neff in BBC News
The Velvet Sundown story plays into the fears we have of losing control of AI A band called The Velvet Sundown has had its tracks played hundreds of thousands of times on Spotify since appearing several weeks ago – without anyone knowing for sure what it is, writes Zoe Kleinman, the BBC’s Technology Editor. It is unclear whether The Velvet Sundown, a band that has 850,000 listeners on Spotify and a verified page, is an AI-generated fabrication o…
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