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Guitar World
Guitar World
Entertainment
Janelle Borg

“I’m giving all the profits to real musicians, whose work AI stole in the first place”: Human musicians form tribute band to viral AI group Velvet Sundown to fight back against AI music

AI-generated press "photo" of the AI band Velvet Sundown.

Last year, the AI-generated band The Velvet Sundown went viral, with the “band” racking up millions of streams in mere months.

Their three albums, Floating On Echoes, Dust And Silence, and Paper Sun Rebellion – complete with AI-generated album covers – sounded so uncannily real that they left music fans scratching their heads and questioning whether they were fully AI-generated.

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