The Velvet Sundown changes Spotify bio, gives AI update

"Composed, voiced, and visualized with the support of artificial intelligence."
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A screenshot of a band called "The Velvet Sundown" on Spotify.
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Remember The Velvet Sundown, that new Spotify group that people accused of being AI-generated? Welp, it turns out it's AI-generated. Or at least partly.

Over the weekend, the band – which currently has over a million monthly listeners on Spotify – updated its "About" page to address its use of artificial intelligence.

Here's the update, in full:


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“The Velvet Sundown is a synthetic music project guided by human creative direction, and composed, voiced, and visualized with the support of artificial intelligence.

This isn’t a trick — it’s a mirror. An ongoing artistic provocation designed to challenge the boundaries of authorship, identity, and the future of music itself in the age of AI.

All characters, stories, music, voices and lyrics are original creations generated with the assistance of artificial intelligence tools employed as creative instruments. Any resemblance to actual places, events or persons — living or deceased — is purely coincidental and unintentional.

Not quite human. Not quite machine. The Velvet Sundown lives somewhere in between.”

So there we go — it turns out pumping out two albums in the same year was a bit suspicious after all.

Mashable has reached out to Spotify for comment and we will updated this story if we hear back.

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Sam Haysom

Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.

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