A group called The Velvet Sundown has played its paths hundreds of thousands of times on Spotify since its appearance several weeks ago – without anyone knowing the certainty of what it is.
The band has a page verified on the music flow platform, with more than 850,000 monthly listeners.
However, none of the four musicians appointed in the band have conducted any interviews or they seem to have individual social media accounts, and there are no records for any live shows.
This prompted accusations that they and their music are artificial intelligence (AI) that has been created – something The band denies On social media.
The BBC’s request was not answered for an interview.
In confusing the story, Rolling Stone Us reported that the band spokesman admitted that Velvet Sundown had been created using the AI tool called Suno – just to the magazine TO Shortly then report The speaker was the same as a trick.
The man, who is named Andrew Frilon, said it is a deliberate plot to deceive the media.
A statement on the Spotify page of the group says that the group “has no affiliation with this person, nor any evidence that confirms his identity or existence.”
He added that an account on X, which he claims to be the official channel of the band as well.
Professor Gina Neve, of the Mindro Technology and Democracy Center at the University of Cambridge, says it indicates a problem affecting more than just one group.
“If this Amnesty International Band may not seem important,” she told me.
“But increasingly, our collective grip on reality appears fragile. The velvet sunset story plays in concerns that we have to lose artificial intelligence control and show how important information is to protect information online.”
Velvet Sunown’s Indie scraps, with guitar and male singing music, is somewhat easy, if nice, on the ear.
With words like “eyes like a film in a faded light, dreams walk barefoot at night” and “ash and velvet, smoke and flame, calling for freedom”, all of this can be either born from AI or his human descriptions.
Deezer, a platform for the flow of competing music, said that the artificial intelligence detection tool has placed a sign of music as “created 100 % of artificial intelligence.”
Spotify did not respond to the comment.
The CEO of Daniel Ek has told BBC that he does not intend to ban music created by artificial intelligence from the platform, but added that he does not agree to use technology to imitate real artists.
Many people in the creative arts industry are very anxious about the impact of artificial intelligence.
Hundreds of musicians protested the use of their content in training artificial intelligence tools to create music.
Sir Elton John and Leipa joined many members of the House of Lords to fight for the UK government to include artificial intelligence and copyright in a new set of laws related to the use of data and access to it. they The campaign was not successful in the end.
The government says it is a separate consultation on artificial intelligence and copyright.
Ed Newton Rex, founder of Fair Trained, who is carrying out campaigns for artificial intelligence companies to respect the rights of creators, said the questions about musicians’ fears at Velvet Sundown.
“This is exactly what the artists were concerned about, it is a theft wearing competitive clothes,” he said.
“Artificial intelligence companies steal artists to build their products, then the market is overwhelmed by defeated damage, which means that less money goes to human musicians.”
Sophie Jones, chief strategy official in BPI, said she explains the need to take government action.
“This discussion reinforces many concerns raised by the music industry and the artists community in recent months on critical issues represented in Amnesty International and music rights.
