King Willonius - Hawk Tuah (Spit On That Thang)
Posted on 07/01/2025 5:39:56 PM PDT by DoodleBob
…Smuggled into popular playlists and hidden in plain sight among authentic, well-known tracks, AI-generated artists with fake photos, ChatGPT-generated biographies and no genuine fans to speak of are picking up hundreds of thousands of streams.
One such artist is The Velvet Sundown, a band with almost 350,000 monthly Spotify listeners but no discernible online presence or social media accounts. ("There's not a shred of evidence on the internet that this band has ever existed," as one Redditor put it.) While we can't confirm that the band's music is AI-generated, a glance at their artist image and bio should be enough to persuade even the least skeptical observer.
"The Velvet Sundown don’t just play music — they conjure worlds," reads the group's Spotify profile, which we're about 99% certain has been authored by ChatGPT. "Somewhere between the ghost of Laurel Canyon and the echo of a Berlin warehouse, this four-piece band bends time, fusing 1970s psychedelic textures with cinematic alt-pop and dreamy analog soul."
The biography tellingly states that the band's music "feels like a hallucination you want to stay lost in," their live shows playing like "lucid dreams" and their albums "unfolding like lost soundtracks to films that were never made". There's even a seemingly bogus quote from Billboard rounding things off, claiming that the band "sound like the memory of something you never lived, and somehow make it feel real”.
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Velvet Sundown tracks have been identified in more than 30 popular playlists created by anonymous curator accounts, and have even begun popping up in Spotify users' Discover Weekly, personalized playlists generated by the platform's recommendation algorithm. The band's music has also been uploaded to Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube and Deezer, the latter's AI detection tool flagging The Velvet Sundown's music as potentially AI-generated.
(Excerpt) Read more at musicradar.com ...
Ok, that was funny.
They are lined up in exactly the same order in all 3 pictures. That’s about a 3% chance of happening in real life.
Central Casting or “Binders Full of 35 y/o Men”, to use Mitt Romney’s old phrase.
missed your earlier post. [blush]
PROOF The Velvet Sundown Is 100% REAL! AI SCAM? Nope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yFnNtHu-H8
Could be the whole “this is an AI band” was dreamed up to promote interest in the band. Those old enough remember how the band Klaatu was claimed to be a surreptitious reunion of the Beatles.
Did Slim Whitman file a complaint?
The more ya look, the weirder it gets.
What’s with the life preservers? Getting ahead of BTTF?
All sorts of oddities in that one.
Well…since I posed it, I can assure you, no.
It popped up on my LinkedIn feed today. It looks like someone figured out this band’s fakery a few days ago. Now EVERYONE is writing about it.
Including us.
They look as real as a Kamala Harris rally.
ping
https://youtu.be/23aaZKE6Cbk?si=e7X3j-08gfY5XKdU
Someone asked AI to make a country song and this is what it came up with.
Leader of the Laundromat--The Detergents (1964)
My World Fell Down--Sagittarius (1967)
Make Believe--Wind (1969)
Candida--Dawn (1970)
interesting
The Monkees sort of fit that bill, too.
King Willonius - Hawk Tuah (Spit On That Thang)
Truth vs AI
Too funny.
I’ll check out Beato Videos later.👍
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