{"id":3327,"date":"2025-07-03T00:10:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T00:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/ai-band-velvet-sundown-hoax-trolling-spokesperson\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T00:10:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T00:10:41","slug":"ai-band-velvet-sundown-hoax-trolling-spokesperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/ai-band-velvet-sundown-hoax-trolling-spokesperson\/","title":{"rendered":"Spokesman for Viral AI Band The Velvet Sundown Admits to \u2018Art Hoax,\u2019 \u2018Trolling\u2019 in First\u00a0Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tA band called The Velvet Sundown has made waves in the music industry over the last week due to allegations that the images and songs on its Spotify profile were AI-generated. Now, in a new conversation with Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em>, a so-called \u201cadjunct\u201d member of the band, Andrew Frelon, admits to using AI music company Suno in the creation of some of its songs, calling the whole project an \u201cart hoax.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s marketing. It\u2019s trolling. People before, they didn\u2019t care about what we did, and now suddenly we\u2019re talking to Rolling Stone, <\/em>so it\u2019s like \u2018Is that wrong?’\u201d Frelon told the outlet.<\/p>\n

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\n\tFrelon reportedly changed his story multiple times during the interview. First, he said Suno\u2019s tools were only used in the brainstorming of the writing process; later, he admitted to using Suno but \u201cnot in the final product.\u201d Later in the interview, he again changed his position, saying at least some of the songs were generated by Suno, but that he didn\u2019t \u201cwant to say which ones.\u201d Of the tools in Suno\u2019s suite, Frelon cited using Persona, a product released in October 2024 that allows users to remix songs on the Suno platform into new genres and styles.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Persona tool was also recently employed by Timbaland<\/a> in the creation of his controversial AI artist TaTa, which is part of the artist and producer\u2019s new AI entertainment company Stage Zero<\/a>. (Timbaland has been a strategic advisor <\/a>for Suno since October 2024.)<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPersonally, I\u2019m interested in art hoaxes,\u201d Frelon added in the interview. \u201cThe Leeds 13, a group of art students in the U.K., made, like, fake photos of themselves spending scholarship money at a beach or something like that, and it became a huge scandal. I think that stuff\u2019s really interesting \u2026 We live in a world now where things that are fake have sometimes even more impact than things that are real. And that\u2019s messed up, but that\u2019s the reality that we face now. So it\u2019s like, \u2018Should we ignore that reality? Should we ignore these things that kind of exist on a continuum of real versus fake or kind of a blend between the two? Or should we dive into it and just let it be the emerging native language of the internet?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Velvet Sundown became a viral sensation last week after the band\u2019s Spotify profile was posted to Reddit by a user who accused the band of being AI-generated. At the time, Sundown\u2019s top song had just over 100,000 plays on the platform, but after the Reddit post spurred widespread discussion about the band \u2014 and AI music in general \u2014 listens for its top song have climbed to 675,000 and counting.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe band is just one example of many, however. French streamer Deezer reported this spring that 18% of songs <\/a>delivered to them every day are now fully AI-generated, equating to about 20,000 new AI songs daily.<\/p>\n

\n\tLast month, \u201cA Million Colors\u201d by Vinih Pray became the first-known AI-generated song to rank on the TikTok charts<\/a>. The song, which has since been removed from TikTok, peaked at No. 44 on the TikTok Viral 50 and was used by hundreds of thousands of users on the platform, including Kylie Jenner, who used<\/a> the song to soundtrack a makeup tutorial with 1.7 million likes. To date, it has over 1 million plays on Spotify.<\/p>\n

\n\tSo far, most streaming services, including Spotify, do not have policies<\/a> specific to AI music on their platforms. Among the streamers, Deezer has taken the lead. Since January, the company has spoken out about how the company plans to regulate AI content on the platform. Now, anything that Deezer\u2019s proprietary AI detection tool flags as fully AI-generated is removed from its algorithm and is ineligible for playlisting, although users can still listen to the tracks via search. All AI songs on the platform are also tagged to ensure that users know what they are listening to. The Velvet Sundown\u2019s artist page on Deezer currently displays this tag.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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