“It’s shocking, it’s disheartening, it’s insulting – most importantly – it’s a wake up call”: Cardiff band decry the fact AI ‘band’ trained on their music overtakes them on Spotify

Holding Absence bassist and singer.

Concerning news from Wales, where a Cardiff-based rock band have discovered that an AI ‘band’ that has been modelled on their music has overtaken their listening figures on Spotify.

The original, flesh and blood, human band is Holding Absence, whose frontman Lucas Woodland took to Twitter/X last night and shared this news: “So, an AI ‘band’ who cite us as an influence (ie, it’s modelled off our music) have just overtaken us on Spotify, in only TWO months.”