The Velvet Sundown, an obviously fictional “band” that’s gone viral after somehow racking up more than 500,000 monthly listeners on Spotify out of nowhere, used the generative-AI platform ...

The AI 'band' Velvet Sundown's Spotify page also denies "spokesperson" Andrew Frelon's affiliation with the group ...

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The pictures of the “band” are very obviously and disturbingly AI-generated. Spotify allows AI music, and no disclosure is currently required.

Fully AI-generated music is only accounting for a tiny proportion of streams on services like Spotify and Deezer at the moment.