Rock Band with more than a million Spotify listeners reveals that it is entirely generated by AI – to the musicians themselves

A new new rock group that quickly turned into the best ranks of Spotify announced that it was entirely generated by artificial intelligence, only a month after his first album of his first album earned him a million listeners.

The Rock and-Roll group inspired by the 60s, The Velvet Sundown, revealed on Saturday that nothing about this is real after fans of promising artists noticed that there was practically no trace of online people.

His first album, “Floating on Echoes”, was released on June 5 at Mass Appeal online.

The most popular song of the album, the folk rock song Pro-Peace “Dust on the Wind”, won place n ° 1 of the daily graph of Spotify “Viral 50” in Great Britain, Norway and Sweden between June 29 and July 1.

During all this time, the million monthly listeners who began to follow the sunset in velvet had no idea that they simply listened to a mass of artificial intelligence made by false musicians.

The photos of the group shared online and appearing on the album cover were abnormally smooth and matt and the guitarist’s hand was wobbly with fingers fused gripping his instrument – a classic characteristic of images generated by AI.

The group’s lyrics were also a perfect network of generic anti-war feelings and other shots like “Notthin” lasts forever but the earth and the sky, it is moving away, and all your money will not yet be a minute of purchase. “

The false rockstars also pampered new frightening albums – and inhumans – fast, by freeing two in June only and another set for mid -July.

The group finally revealed its secret during the weekend.

He updated his spotify biography on Saturday to reflect the torsion of the AI, ensuring that the project had not tried to bamboo its audience.

“The Sundown Velvet is a synthetic music project guided by the human creative direction, and composed, expressed and visualized with the support of artificial intelligence. It’s not a tip – it’s a mirror. An artistic provocation in progress designed to question the limits of the fatherhood, identity and the future of music itself in the AI ​​era, ”says biography.

Some people who had seen the group’s scheme early early tried to take advantage of its viral success before the release of the truth.

A Quebec-based web security expert pretended to be a spokesperson for the Sundown Velvet under the pseudonym Andrew Frelon, which translates into Hornet in French, and even slipped false information to the Rolling Stone magazine on his supposed customers.

But the man behind the hornet quickly admitted that he was just trying to troll people online.

It is not clear if the velvet sunset will be faced with a Spotify reaction or any other platform where it can be eligible for streaming income.

From July 15, YouTube announced that it would reduce all monetization, including advertisements, for any content generated by AI.

At the end of June, the popular Youtuber Mr.beast announced a tool that would use AI to make miniatures for videos. He quickly removed it after receiving the counterpou to support an engine of artificial intelligence, which often requires massive quantities of energy which would regularly compensate for its years of environmental work and reforestation efforts.