Eine halbe Million Spotify-Benutzer rasten unwissentlich in ein Ai-Generat-Band | Eine angebliche Band namens Velvet Sundown hat diesen Monat zwei Alben von Ai Slop veröffentlicht.

From the article: Making art used to be a uniquely human endeavor, but machines have learned to distill human creativity with generative AI. Whether that content counts as „art“ depends on who you ask, but Spotify doesn’t discriminate. A new band called The Velvet Sundown debuted on Spotify this month and has already amassed more than half a million listeners. But by all appearances, The Velvet Sundown is not a real band—it’s AI.

While many artists are vehemently opposed to using AI, some have leaned into the trend to assist with music production. However, it doesn’t seem like there’s an artist behind this group. In less than a month, The Velvet Sundown has released two albums on Spotify, titled „Floating On Echoes“ and „Dust and Silence.“ A third album is releasing in two weeks. The tracks have a classic rock vibe with a cacophony of echoey instruments and a dash of autotune. If one of these songs came up in a mix, you might not notice anything is amiss. Listen to one after another, though, and the bland muddiness exposes them as a machine creation.

Some listeners began to have doubts about The Velvet Sundown’s existence over the past week, with multiple Reddit and X threads pointing out the lack of verifiable information on the band. The bio lists four members, none of whom appear to exist outside of The Velvet Sundown’s album listings and social media. The group’s songs have been mysteriously added to a large number of user-created playlists, which has helped swell its listener base in a few short weeks. When Spotify users began noticing The Velvet Sundown’s apparent use of AI, the profile had around 300,000 listeners. It’s now over 500,000 in less than a week.

When The Velvet Sundown set up an Instagram account on June 27, all doubts were laid to rest—these „people“ are obviously AI. We may be past the era of being able to identify AI by counting fingers, but there are plenty of weird inconsistencies in these pics. In one Instagram post, the band claims to have gotten burgers to celebrate the success of the first two albums, but there are too many burgers and too few plates, and the food and drink are placed seemingly at random around the table. The band members themselves also have that unrealistically smooth and symmetrical look we see in AI-generated images.

If they’re enjoying listening to it then calling it slop is unreasonable.

„Half a million Spotify users are unknowingly grooving to an AI-generated band “

If they don’t know its AI and they like listening to the music, how is it slop ?

Or do we now just apply the Schrodinger’s equation to it ?
Its either slop or not slop, you only know when you are told its AI.

Spotify itself is a terrible music player. Use literally anything else

Half a million Spotify users are being TORTURED by being FORCED to listen to AI SLOP!!

„Half a million people are unknowingly enjoying and finding value in listening to music that they should dislike.“

Shiit I’ve been doing it for years! My favorite group literally called themselves robots since the early 2000s! Called themselves Daft Punk!

/s just in case

‚If you can’t tell the difference, does it really matter?‘

It’s not slop if ppl are enjoying it.

The only thing that matters when you listen to music or look at art is that you like it, I’v noticed alot of hate from people who just hate the idea that AI is making music and art even if its sometimes good.

Don’t let people talk you out of enjoying something.

The thing that the most anti-ai art people don’t realize is that in the end people never cared how the art is made. If it’s good people will consume it. Nobody cares about artists except artists.