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

Update, Thursday July 3: In a further twist to the story of The Velvet Sundown, we've been contacted by a representatives of the band who claims that "Over the past days, a number of impersonator accounts have surfaced across social media platforms, publishing fabricated statements and AI-generated imagery falsely attributed to us. Unfortunately, some of this material was cited in your recent article."

Since the same information is contained in the Spotify bio for the band, we are taking this new information on good faith and have updated the social media link in this article to reflect this. The new information in no way contradicts the suspicion put forth in the article that the band's music is AI-generated.

Update, Monday June 30 : We’ve been contacted by Deezer, the global streaming music service, to say that it has flagged The Velvet Sundown’s albums as AI-generated content together ...