{"id":236918,"date":"2025-07-04T08:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T08:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/236918\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T08:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T08:16:10","slug":"velvet-sundown-viral-band-success-spawns-ai-claims-and-hoaxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/236918\/","title":{"rendered":"Velvet Sundown: Viral band success spawns AI claims and hoaxes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Velvet Sundown’s indie ballads, with guitar music and male vocals, is fairly easy, if bland, on the ear. <\/p>\n

With lyrics such as “eyes like film in faded light, dreams walk barefoot into the night” and “ash and velvet, smoke and flame, calling out in freedom’s name”, it could all feasibly be either AI-generated or penned by humans.<\/p>\n

Deezer, a rival music streaming platform, said that its AI detector tool had flagged the music as being “100% AI generated”.<\/p>\n

Spotify did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

CEO Daniel Ek has previously told the BBC that he did not intend to ban AI-generated music from the platform but added that he did not agree with using the tech to mimic real artists.<\/p>\n

Many in the creative arts industry are deeply concerned about the impact of AI.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of musicians have protested about the use of their content in the training of AI tools to create music. <\/p>\n

Sir Elton John and Dua Lipa joined many members of the House of Lords in fighting for the UK government to include AI and copyright in a new set of laws regarding data use and access. Their campaign was ultimately unsuccessful<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The government says it is carrying out a separate consultation about AI and copyright.<\/p>\n

Ed Newton Rex, founder of Fairly Trained, which campaigns for AI firms to respect creators’ rights, said the questions around the The Velvet Sundown bore out musicians’ concerns.<\/p>\n

“This is exactly what artists have been worried about, it’s theft dressed up as competition,” he said.<\/p>\n

“AI companies steal artists’ work to build their products, then flood the market with knock-offs, meaning less money goes to human musicians.”<\/p>\n

Sophie Jones, chief strategy officer at BPI, said it illustrated the need for government action.<\/p>\n

“This discussion reinforces many of the concerns raised by the music industry and artist community in recent months on the critical issues of AI and music rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Velvet Sundown’s indie ballads, with guitar music and male vocals, is fairly easy, if bland, on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-236918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114793977150411444","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}