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 ...
I’m sure they’re better than Taylor Swift and all the other cookie cutter crap.
It’s worse.
They’re AI AND country.
First clue that they aren’t real;
The group members never seem to change their clothes, like not in any way. Even Denim Boy could be seen in the various indigo blues that denim often comes in.
The orange life jackets appear to have been photographed under electric light, there is almost no direct source of light.
The background shows a warmer spectrum natural light.
Who is eating Burger Number 5?
First guy in pic 1, shows a cleft in his chin. Cleft is missing in last two pics.
And the guy in the corner seat has no plate and no fries.
Still probably better than 90% of electro music.
Yeah. What’s that about?
But, if the music is appealing, I’m sure the average person would overlook all these little details and rationalize it away. “Why does that bother you?” will be the reply.
Rick Beato has an episode on this AI band...
“So It Begins...Is This A Real Band Or AI?”
In this episode I dissect a song by the band The Velvet Sundown that may or may not be AI, and discuss what this means for the future of music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nlb-m_vKYM
Music ping
It’s a little weird. Plus there are only two drinks on the table.
I don’t drink soda anymore but I’d have to have something to drink with a burger and fries.
AI doesn’t really get humans. Yet.
No ketchup. No napkins. No bites. No dribbles...
Definitely aliens.
So It Begins...Is This A Real Band Or AI?
9:12
Rick Beato
5.06M subscribers
820,110 views
June 30, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nlb-m_vKYM
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The other is that they all look alike to a degree and they’re all good looking.
Fake band. Fake musicians. Fake music. Fake photos. Fake fame. Real money is being generated through royalty algorithms from pure fakery because it’s viewed by huge numbers of people. Are the viewers even real?
Is this the fake world we now live in?
AI means fraud can rise to the tenth power and nothing we experience is now real.
And 5 burgers
I went to the site to read the article, and it put me in mind of the following statement.
“Rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read.”
-Frank Zappa
Is this the fake world we now live in?
Good questions. The answer? NO.
Look into "dead internet theory".
There's a reason the internet is not as good as it used to be. Most of the content, and the viewers, are bots.
The rest of us (real humans) or only spectators observing it.
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