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AI 'Band' the Velvet Sundown Officially Admits They're AI
In an update to their Spotify bio, viral AI "band" the Velvet Sundown call themselves an "ongoing artistic provocation."
“The Velvet Sundown is a synthetic music project guided by human creative direction, and composed, voiced, and visualized with the support of artificial intelligence,” the band bio now reads. The Spotify bio goes on to say, “All characters, stories, music, voices and lyrics are original creations generated with the assistance of artificial intelligence tools employed as creative instruments. Glenn McDonald, a former “data alchemist” for Spotify, told Rolling Stone earlier this week that The Velvet Sundown’s popularity there is likely because the streaming service now accepts payments to boost playlist placement, while also increasingly moving away from human-driven playlist selections toward algorithms that “can pick songs for recommendations based on characteristics of their audio.”
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