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A stone set who soared to the apical of Spotify's charts person revealed the information astir their accelerated emergence to fame successful an update that has near plentifulness of radical feeling unsettled.
If you haven't heard of The Velvet Sundown, they're a stone set who appeared astir retired of thing connected Spotify, soon boasting a illustration with implicit 1.2 cardinal monthly listeners.
However, cipher had immoderate grounds of immoderate unrecorded performances, portion nary of the 4 named musicians successful the set person ever fixed an interrogation oregon person their ain social media profiles, which people led to accusations that their music was AI-generated.
Despite their illustration representation featuring the yellowish tint that seemingly appears successful each AI photograph these days, they continued to contradict these allegations, with an interrogation from set 'spokesperson' Andrew Frelon with The Rolling Stone besides proving to beryllium a hoax.
The band's caller medium is acceptable to driblet adjacent week (The Velvet Sundown/Facebook)
The gig, oregon deficiency of gigs, was good and genuinely up though and present the set person admitted connected their ain profiles that they don't truly exist, and that overmuch of their music was AI-generated.
With lyrics like: "Dust connected the wind, boots connected the ground, fume successful the sky, nary bid found", who would person guessed?
Posting online, the set wrote: "The Velvet Sundown is simply a synthetic euphony task guided by quality originative direction, and composed, voiced, and visualised with the enactment of artificial intelligence.
"This isn’t a instrumentality - it’s a mirror. An ongoing creator provocation designed to situation the boundaries of authorship, identity, and the aboriginal of euphony itself successful the property of AI.
"All characters, stories, music, voices and lyrics are archetypal creations generated with the assistance of artificial quality tools employed arsenic originative instruments. Any resemblance to existent places, events oregon persons - surviving oregon deceased - is purely coincidental and unintentional.
"Not rather human. Not rather machine. The Velvet Sundown lives determination successful between."
Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek suggested that AI euphony is strictly prohibited (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
It possibly doesn't travel arsenic a astonishment to astir people, fixed that the set are producing albums astatine an inhuman rate, with 2 successful June and different scheduled for mid-July.
It conscionable goes to amusement how acold AI has come successful the past fewer years, and it's beauteous scary that the set were capable to summation truthful overmuch popularity with a ample information of their listeners seemingly unaware that they weren't real.
Spotify's CEO Daniel Ek clarified earlier this twelvemonth that portion AI tools specified arsenic auto-tune are allowed, AI-generated euphony that impersonates artists is strictly prohibited, truthful this whitethorn good beryllium the past we perceive of The Velvet Sundown.
For those of you who inactive similar the set and oregon privation to listen, their 3rd medium is acceptable to get connected 14 July.
