Musicians are calling for regulations and finding creative ways to fight back as AI "bands" climb the charts on streaming platforms, soaking up already meagre royalty payments.

The Velvet Sundown admitted they're not a real band. The AI-generated group is just one example fueling debate over the future of creativity.

Streaming platforms struggle with AI-generated content verification, but the Velvet Sundown controversy exposes how easily fake bands can game the system. This “indie rock band” accumulated over half ...

"Not quite human. Not quite machine. The Velvet Sundown lives somewhere in between," the band's creator wrote in their ...

The description on the Instagram page reads: "Saving Modern Rock," and is filled with AI generated images, including ...

With soothing folk rock that sounded like an undiscovered gem from the 1960s, Velvet Sundown quickly became a hit on Spotify.

In that sense, it signifies the fate of music that is streamed online and then imbibed while one drives, cooks, cleans, works, exercises, or does any other prosaic act. Long before generative AI began ...

After an "indie rock band" called The Velvet Sundown refused to admit that its output was AI slop, the outfit is now singing a different tune.

The Velvet Sundown, a psychedelic rock band that has amassed over 850,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, has been making ...

Users are turning to ChatGPT to guide them through acid trips. Plus Microsoft stacks the deck in dodgy medical ...

Explore how AI-generated music is disrupting the industry, from synthetic artists like The Velvet Sundown to the $2.7B market ...

The person behind a "band" that sparked a heated debate for heavily relying on generative AI has finally admitted the truth.