Earlier this month, you might have read about a new artist called The Velvet Sundown, who quickly amassed half a million listeners for their two albums on Spotify, despite the fact that, in flesh and blood terms, they don't actually exist. A spokesman for the AI-created band, Andrew Frelon - not his real name, incidentally - was entirely unapologetic for their fake existence, and had some questions of his own for society.
"We live in a world now where things that are fake have sometimes even more impact than things that are real," he told Rolling Stone."And that’s messed up, but that’s the reality that we face now. So it’s like, ‘Should we ignore that reality?"
