This Band Has Millions of Streams on Spotify. The Only Problem — the Music and the Band Members Were Generated by AI.
David James
created: July 14, 2025, 2:33 p.m. | updated: July 15, 2025, 12:15 p.m.
Hot new band Velvet Sundown has revealed itself to be "not quite human."
In a post on X from Velvet Sundown's official account, the poster wrote, "The Velvet Sundown is a synthetic music project guided by human creative direction, and composed, voiced, and visualized with the support of artificial intelligence.
Not quite human.
The Velvet Sundown is a synthetic music project guided by human creative direction, and composed, voiced, and visualized with the support of artificial intelligence.
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