Have you heard of Velvet Sundown? Nor me But indie rock band is hot Spotify This week the chart, with about 600,000 monthly listeners, possibly the bands of the band, jam for the Country Rock Glurg. A single song, “Dust on the Wind” (not a cover of the Canasus song “Dust in the Wind”, is more than 500,000 plays on the world’s most popular streaming service.
So the band’s career is flowing, as the children used to say. But velvet sundown doesn’t really seem ExistenceAll indications suggest that the band credited everything is completely AI: music, band photos, album cover. All this is made by computer.
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The story of the fake band has been covered PC gamerOn our pulse Mashable, Tech radar And countless other sources. But the velvet tune is not alone. They are an army of fake-fed musicians on music streaming services, and they are not even the most successful.
How to tell if a band exists
It is not possible to determine Sure! Was it just made by the music computer to hear it, so what you can do is speculation, but I Firmly It is suspected that the music of Velvet Sundown produces AI.
An exhibition a: music
His music is so tirelessly average, so it is devoid of personality, that it Could not do Humans have come. Everything from songs to song structures is boilerplate. It’s not even good ExcitementIt is not that the music of Velvet Sundown is bad; it AnythingThere is a difference between an electric guitar and a soundwave, which is designed by digitally smelting, combining and copying the voices of countless other electric guitars. The difference is difficult to describe, of course, but it is there.
(What is worth it, French music streaming platform Dieser’s AI Detection Tool has announced that Velvet Sundown is “music”AI,
Exhibition two: Photo
Credit: tvs_music/x
The above photo is on the header X account is associated with velvet tuneWhereas the image does not have any additional fingers or other teltel “these AI” signals Feel A. Like music, it is difficult to explain the difference between a human face and the amalgamation of millions of human faces, and it is difficult to explain deadness in the eyes of AI “people”, but it is there. More clearly, however, it is one of the only two images of the band that I can find online. How many people in the band you know who No Like photographed?
What do you think so far?
Exhibition three: References
Until an X account was created this week, the entire online presence of Velvet Sundown included some songs on streaming services. No website, no tickets, no Instagram, No SoundCloud, No Fan Forum, no upcoming gigs, NothingThis is not just how to do actual bands in 2025, where an online survival is expected. Only fake bands suddenly appear on streaming services, especially the band was polished as an average status as a velvet sundown. According to Spotify Bio, members of the Velvet Sunset are Gab Fero, Leeni West, Milo Rain, and Orion “Rio” Dell Mara. I can not find any evidence of these people who have been played with other bands, or are currently in.
Exhibition Char: Average Law
Spotify does not declare how much music has been created by AI on its service, but at this point, I think the answer is “most.” It is so easy to create an AI-Janit piece of music that you make your own. To be in a real band, you have to spend years to practice music, then find other people who want to play music with you, rent a studio, write songs, etc. Year Nothing “here is my first song.” It took five years to record Leonard Cohen “Halelujah”. It took me eight minutes to use (I gave it time) Claude.ai And Listen Radio-Taiyar Country to make a hit “Waiting for death.,
Ai battle with music invasion
Velvet sunset is not alone. Are complete Styles Music online which they were made by machines. Velvets (as true fans call them) are not even the most successful fake-prepared bands on Spotiff-listen to one listen Jazz for study playlistThe first “artist” listed, “super smart trio”, no appearance online outside music streaming services, has released a total of 12 songs, and yet its biggest hit, “Is up,” has been played three million times. Or “Tate Jackson Trio.” He has more than 12 million plays “It is in the middle of the night, “ But he does not have a website and there is no evidence that he has ever played a show. Check out Lofi chillA Spotify-Curated Playlist where “Artist” Like “like” like “Melodious mirror“Despite just 12 songs and showing no signal of existing, rack millions of plays. I can’t say if all these bands are AIs, but they are running like ducks and kicking In fact loud.
Why should you care about AI music
If someone is enjoying “dust on air”, while they are studying or planning in a murder race, what difference does it make if the Orion “Rio” del Mar (Nirala a) is really fake? There is no use by shaking your fist in a thunder; Everything is good and human acquisition Is happeningNo matter how you or I feel about it. But (as my country illustrated by hip-hop work “Waiting to die“) We do not have this life forever, and I would like choose Whether to participate in AI-Janit Art experiences or not. When I play on a song, I am entering an unspecified agreement that somewhere, somehow, a person sat down and tried to express something with music. So i Like music.
In the 1970s, when Craftwork imagined future machine-related music, it was at least it Cold: Robotic, accurate, cold, artificial sleepiness and future future. AI Music Fluding Spotify is not visionary today, it is only human-kalpana music made by computers which were originally Trained To be boring Can we just get the opt-out button? The whole thing i’m so crazy Kroq-ready pop punk song about it.
