Totally fake AI created band VELEVET SUNDOWN has 400,000 hits on SPOTIFY... HUH?

[mydadisjr]

Totally fake... the future is here! Yay!

As I listen to the song below and also check out their (obviously AI created) "picture", I think... "HOLY COW, AI HASN'T HEARD OF CYMBALS!"

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From Daily mail.com:

Spotify is facing boycotts from both artists and subscribers over its move into AI.

Not only is the streaming service facing backlash for its ties to an AI military startup, one of the biggest new bands on the site is rumored to be AI generated.

The band, named The Velvet Sundown, already have over 550,000 million monthly listeners despite only debuting on the service in early June.

Promotional images of the band all appear to be AI generated, and the credits on their music has no writers, producers or musicians listed.

There's also no live performances or interviews of the band anywhere to be found, and none of the four members have any kind of internet presence.

The band also has barely any social media followers, with just 322 on Instagram and 47 followers on X.

Despite this, The Velvet Sundown have been featured on multiple popular Spotify playlists.

 

[bobsyouruncle]

All that convenience is a mother trucker , ain't it ?

 

[Houndog]

I hate to say it , but it sounds pretty good .

 

[bernard]

Yup, that photo is obviously AI generated. The happy bassist is a dead giveaway.

 

[green glass drum]

So.....those guys did not play on the record?
so kinda like those 60's Pop Bands?

 

[Sinclair]

Sounds extremely ordinary. Nice to know our future will be made up of the lowest common denominators possible. Actually... that's my new band. LCD...Lowest Common Denominator. I'm gonna be rich!!

 

[bpaluzzi]

So.....those guys did not play on the record?
so kinda like those 60's Pop Bands?

Which guys?

The "photo" is clearly AI generated.

 

[DrumPhil]

Whatever samples are being used for cymbals sound awful. Wouldn’t surprise me if this is the work of some homebody (not necessarily a musician) who feeds germs of ideas into AI and tweaks it until done. Sort of a CGI version of Milli Vanilli.

 

[toddbishop]

The only reason for that to exist is to not pay even an infinitesimal royalty to humans, and instead give it to a tech company.

No reason for any person to listen to that. Whether it "sounds good" is irrrelevant, it says nothing, it has no creative reason to exist.

 

[dbone]

550,000 million monthly listeners

Million?? It’s hopefully just a typo.

Or… could it be the AI journalist hyping their AI roommate in the AI band?

 

[jabrams]

Burp

 

[Topsy Turvy]

So.....those guys did not play on the record?
so kinda like those 60's Pop Bands?

The difference is no one played on this song. At least in the 60s, real musicians played the songs. That’s a huge difference.

 

[rkingston]

Million?? It’s hopefully just a typo.

Or… could it be the AI journalist hyping their AI roommate in the AI band?

I had the same thought:
550,000 million? What does that even mean?

 

[dingaling]

I unfortunately like the snare sound.

 

[mydadisjr]

I had the same thought:
550,000 million? What does that even mean?

Yup, that is a typo in the DAILY MAIL article... it should read 550,000 listeners.



More exciting details ...

VELVET SUNDOWN now has an obviously AI generated response on X stating that they REALLY ARE a real band... and are busily creating TRUE ART in a sweaty "bungalow"...


From syracuse.com/entertainment:

“Absolutely crazy that so-called ‘journalists’ keep pushing the lazy, baseless theory that The Velvet Sundown is ‘AI-generated’ with zero evidence,” @velvet_sundown wrote in a series of tweets over the weekend. “Not a single one of these ‘writers’ has reached out, visited a show, or listened beyond the Spotify algorithm. This is not a joke.

“This is our music, written in long, sweaty nights in a cramped bungalow in California with real instruments, real minds, and real soul. Every chord, every lyric, every mistake — HUMAN. Just because we don’t do TikTok dances or livestream our process doesn’t mean we’re fake."

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Funny thing is, there is zero evidence that VELVET SUNDOWN has ever done a "show".

 

[lamartee]

Uh huh, I'm sure.

 

[hsosdrum]

Rick Beato did a short analysis of it:

 

[Polska]

Sadly most listeners won't even care.

 

[toddbishop]

Yup, that is a typo in the DAILY MAIL article... it should read 550,000 listeners.



More exciting details ...

VELVET SUNDOWN now has an obviously AI generated response on X stating that they REALLY ARE a real band... and are busily creating TRUE ART in a sweaty "bungalow"...


From syracuse.com/entertainment:

“Absolutely crazy that so-called ‘journalists’ keep pushing the lazy, baseless theory that The Velvet Sundown is ‘AI-generated’ with zero evidence,” @velvet_sundown wrote in a series of tweets over the weekend. “Not a single one of these ‘writers’ has reached out, visited a show, or listened beyond the Spotify algorithm. This is not a joke.

“This is our music, written in long, sweaty nights in a cramped bungalow in California with real instruments, real minds, and real soul. Every chord, every lyric, every mistake — HUMAN. Just because we don’t do TikTok dances or livestream our process doesn’t mean we’re fake."

Well, these trollish non-specific assertions of existence somewhere in the state of California (really real bands famously do not like sharing their location for local people can come see them play) and of having "done shows" have made a believer out of me!

It is amazing how dumb AI involvement makes people. Whatever idiot is running this op thinks they can just drive it home by saying it really hard. The one true faith right now, in the power of one's own lies.

 

[SchmuckyPutz]

Our great Computers fill the Hallowed Halls....