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Music marketplace Bandcamp bypasses AI disclosures and obtuse policies to announce a wholesale ban on AI slop

More of this, please.

PC Gamer

What links Leonora Carrington, Steve McQueen and Leon Trotsky? The Saturday quiz

From State of Play and The Hack to Tilly Norwood and The Velvet Sundown, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

The Guardian - UK

Hard Rock Cover Of 50 Cent’s ‘Many Men’ Goes Mega Viral Amid AI Music Boom

A creator turned 50 Cent’s classic rap hit into a hard rock sensation that’s taking the internet by storm.

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Why industry-standard labels for AI in music could change how we listen

Earlier this year, a band called The Velvet Sundown racked up hundreds of thousands of streams on Spotify with retro-pop tracks, generating a million monthly listeners on Spotify.

The Conversation

“It’s shocking, it’s disheartening, it’s insulting – most importantly – it’s a wake up call”: Rock band speak out as AI-generated ‘artist’ modelled on their music gets more Spotify listeners

Holding Absence singer Lucas Woodland urges fans to “oppose AI music” as a non-existent band overtake them on Spotify

Metal Hammer

French streamer Deezer reveals that 28 per cent of music uploaded to platform is AI-generated

The French music streaming service said 30,000 tracks created with AI are added to the platform every day – a 10 per cent increase compared to April.

Euronews

What is AI slop? And is it harmless or damaging?

ANALYSIS: You’ve probably encoutered AI slop without realising, reports Adam Nemeroff

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What is AI slop? A technologist explains this new and largely unwelcome form of online content

You’ve probably encountered images in your social media feeds that look like a cross between photographs and computer-generated graphics. Some are fantastical – think Shrimp Jesus – and some are believable at a quick glance – remember the little girl clutching a puppy in a boat during a flood?

The Conversation

"This doesn't align with our values or our submission requirements": The Velvet Sundown have been banned from the Future Sound Awards, which celebrate "the responsible use of AI in music"

"We have proactively taken the step to ban the band from entering the awards"

MusicRadar

AI is killing music, and design can't be far behind

We're witnessing the systematic dismantling of human artistry… and it's only getting started.

Creative Bloq

An AI-generated band got 1m plays on Spotify. Now music insiders say listeners should be warned

The Velvet Sundown released two albums before admitting their music, images and backstory were created by AI

The Guardian - UK

The Velvet Sundown explained: What’s behind the Spotify-verified AI band controversy?

Explaining the controversy surrounding The Velvet Sundown - the rock band that lied about being generated by artificial intelligence. How has this empty 'provocation' highlighted Spotify’s alleged dubious practices – chiefly, avoiding paying royalties - and confirmed fears about generative AI?

Euronews

The Velvet Sundown: Everything we know about the band accused of being AI

The band have denied claims that their identity and music are fake

The Independent UK

"This is exactly what artists have been worried about – it's theft dressed up as competition": Who is behind The Velvet Sundown, the AI-generated band that blew up the internet?

A 'spokesperson' for The Velvet Sundown that gave a statement to Rolling Stone earlier this week has now revealed that he's not affiliated with group

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TechRadar

Apple and Spotify are sleepwalking into an AI music crisis – and The Velvet Sundown mess shows they need to act fast

Spotify and Apple’s AI blind spot: The Velvet Sundown is a warning on the dangers of AI music.

MusicRadar

“It’s marketing. It’s trolling”: AI band The Velvet Sundown are an ‘art hoax’, confirms 'spokesman'

But does it matter?

Louder

"It's marketing. It's trolling. Is that wrong?" Spokesman for that fake band you've been reading about admits they're fake

The Velvet Sundown have come clean

Metal Hammer

A seemingly non-existent band have more than half a million Spotify ‘listeners’, but the numbers they’re piling up are just as shallow and meaningless as the computer-generated music they spit out

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Louder

There's a band with more than half a million monthly listeners on Spotify and they probably don't exist

Meet The Velvet Sundown, the world's new favourite AI-generated rock stars

PC Gamer

Accused of being AI after racking up well over 400,000 monthly Spotify listens, The Velvet Sundown claims they are 'a real band' and 'never use AI'

Never give the robot the Aux cord.

TechRadar

Spotify’s latest breakout band The Velvet Sundown appears to be AI-generated – and fans aren’t happy

New Spotify sensation The Velvet Sundown appears to be an entirely AI-generated band, even down to their album covers and music

We Got This Covered

‘This should lowkey be illegal’: Music lovers in shock as seemingly AI generated band ‘The Velvet Sundown’ takes off on Spotify

The Velvet Sundown might not be who (or what) they say they are.

MusicRadar

"There's not a shred of evidence on the internet that this band has ever existed": This apparently AI-generated artist is racking up hundreds of thousands of Spotify streams

The Velvet Sundown has no online footprint, a suspiciously artificial artist image and a ChatGPT-generated biography - but somehow has almost 350,000 monthly listeners

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