AI-generated band The Velvet Sundown fooled 500k Spotify listeners with fake personas, exposing streaming platform's ...

The AI 'band' Velvet Sundown's Spotify page also denies "spokesperson" Andrew Frelon's affiliation with the group ...

To no one's surprise, the fakery has now been confirmed. Band members Gabe Farrow, Lennie West, Milo Rains and Orion "Rio" ...

The plot has thickened tremendously. Yesterday Rolling Stone ran an interview with Andrew Frelon, a guy who claimed to be a ...

Its name is even similar to The Velvet Underground, the legendary experimental rock band once led by guitarist Lou Reed.There ...

First, a new AI-generated psych rock "band" called the Velvet Sundown became popular, as of this writing earning close to 900 ...

Frelon said he created The Velvet Sundown tracks using the generative-AI tool Suno before posting them on Spotify, where the ...

The real person behind Andrew Frelon is an expert on web platform safety and policy issues, with extensive experience using generative AI. He was born in the United States but lives in Canada.

The Velvet Sundown, an indie psych rock band with a verified profile on Spotify, has been accused of releasing music ...

A rock band who soared to the top of Spotify's charts have revealed the truth about their rapid rise to fame in an update ...

A Quebec-based web safety expert posed as a spokesperson for the Velvet Sundown under the pseudonym Andrew Frelon, which translates to hornet in French, and even slid false information to Rolling ...

James Gunn has commented on Batman’s possible DCU suit. Gunn and Peter Safran’s DCU officially launched in December 2024 with ...