An explainer on how AI is changing music—from creation tools to virtual bands—and how it differs from traditional music ...

It's a case like Milli Vanilli's lip-syncing scandal of the 90s made for the artificial intelligence era. The Velvet Sundown ...

Aventhis, who doesn’t exist, has over a million monthly Spotify listeners. Everything appears to be in order – but it’s not.

Even listeners who hate the idea of AI music are getting served tracks like “Taste My Ass” and “I Caught Santa Claus Sniffing ...

The creators behind Aventhis and other AI ‘artists’ might not actually own the rights to the music they upload to streaming ...

An AI band called The Velvet Sundown reached 500,000 listeners on Spotify in weeks, but few people realized it was AI slop.

With AI-generated artists gathering significant followings on Spotify, we're interested to know if you like AI music.

According to (someone claiming to be) ‘band’ spokesperson and 'adjunct member' Andrew Frelon, the whole thing is an ‘art hoax ...

In that sense, it signifies the fate of music that is streamed online and then imbibed while one drives, cooks, cleans, works, exercises, or does any other prosaic act. Long before generative AI began ...

The Velvet Sundown's owners have now confirmed it's an AI-generated band. A new disclaimer on the band's Spotify says the ...

A man using the pseudonym Andrew Frelon posed as the spokesperson for a band called The Velvet Sundown — which he later said he had no involvement with — creating a media frenzy that propelled the ...

Even if you suspect a fake, here’s what to consider before accusing someone of using AI to create art, music or writing.