The band's photos look remarkably AI-generated — too clean, not quite textured enough, oddly inhuman, yet it has racked up more than 372,000 monthly listeners on Spotify.

On June 26, Music Ally reported that a seemingly fictional, AI-generated band named The Velvet Sundown had accrued hundreds of thousands of monthly listeners on Spotify after appearing in several ...

The saga continues: The Velvet Sundown, who we suspected were an AI-generated band, have admitted to being an AI-generated band. The statement follows drama in which a troll pretended to be a ...

A few weeks ago Timbaland unveiled the not-human artist TaTa, who was the first signee of his AI record label Stage Zero. Now there’s a new AI-generated act on the scene called the Velvet ...

AI-generated bands like The Velvet Sundown are going viral on streaming platforms. " [The Velvet Sundown]" is much better music than most of what we've heard from AI in the past," Jason Palamara ...

The Velvet Sundown has nearly 600,000 monthly Spotify listeners, but the band doesn't exist. Here's how to identify AI-generated music and why streaming platforms need to label artificial content.

The band's photos look remarkably AI-generated — too clean, not quite textured enough, oddly inhuman, yet it has racked up more than 372,000 monthly listeners on Spotify.