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"It's marketing; it's trolling," pseudonymous “adjunct” Velvet Sundown member Andrew Frelon admitted in a new interview.
A spokesperson for The Velvet Sundown has admitted the 'band' is a deliberate “art hoax" using generative-AI platform Suno.
AI band The Velvet Sundown is an "art hoax" and an act of "trolling," said a spokesperson in a new interview about the viral project.
In recent years, a new type of online abuse has started spreading quietly in Papua New Guinea and around the world.
Perhaps you, too, have had the displeasure of stumbling across the Velvet Sundown on Spotify or social media. The psych-rock “band” made headlines last month after they’d amassed hundreds of thousands ...
Despite the strong performance of Microsoft’s medical AI MAI-DxO in testing, which included models from OpenAI, Google, ...
Photos of the purported statue showed the heavy-set singer cast in bronze and surrounded by trees and a red brick walkway.
The Velvet Sundown, a supposed indie band, has shot up Spotify charts with AI-generated music and images, blurring the line ...
The photos of the device immediately highlight the impracticality of deploying it or similar suppressors in combat.
The Velvet Sundown has nearly 600,000 monthly Spotify listeners, but the band doesn't exist. Here's how to identify ...
Things that are fake have sometimes even more impact than things that are real,” a band spokesperson tells Rolling Stone ...
Extreme-weather organizations rely on submissions from across Canada to help issue tornado warnings, but that’s become more complicated due to the increased prevalence of altered images.