Explaining the controversy surrounding The Velvet Sundown - the rock band that lied about being generated by artificial ...

The Velvet Sundown, Spotify's mysterious breakout band, shocked the music industry by gaining over 400,000 monthly listeners ...

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The Velvet Sundown's owners have now confirmed it's an AI-generated band. A new disclaimer on the band's Spotify says the ...

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Within 24 hours of Frelon's own blog post, the band's owners updated the Spotify bio to confirm it is an AI-project for the first time. So far, the real owners have remained anonymous.

The Velvet Sundown, a band with significant Spotify success, is facing allegations of being AI-generated amidst a series of hoaxes.

In a statement on its Spotify page, The Velvet Sundown distanced itself from Frelon, stating the band has "no affiliation with this individual, nor any evidence confirming their identity or existence.

A Canadian who duped journalists in an elaborate hoax involving Spotify, AI and a suspicious rock band says he apologizes to anyone hurt by his experiment but that it's been "too fascinating" to ...