Velvet Sundown, a fictitious group that managed to have 750,000 monthly listeners, admits to using artificial intelligence feature in the songs
A band called Velvet sundown Recently caught the attention by reaching the mark of 500,000 monthly listeners in the Spotify. Now there are 750 thousand. It was later discovered, however, that the most impressive and unusual is not even the number itself, but the fact that it is a group created with artificial intelligence, as well as their songs.
THE Velvet sundown It has no real members. There are no humans involved in the composition process of this fictional band, but a technology tool called Sunbased on AI, which generates the most heard “successes” in the group, as “Dust on the Wind”, “Drift Beyond The Flame” and “The Wind Still Knows Our Name”.
ANDrew FRELONa “spokesman” Velvet sundownadmitted in an exclusive interview with Roling Stone USA the use of Sun And that the band is an “artistic farce”. Nevertheless, he states that the public does not seem to give so much importance to this finding:
“It’s marketing. It’s trolling. But people didn’t care what we did so far and now, suddenly, we’re talking to Rolling Stone, so it’s like, ‘Is this wrong?’
He adds:
“We live in a world now where false things sometimes have even more impact than real things. And that’s confusing, but it’s the reality we face now. So it’s like, ‘We should ignore this reality?’
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The artificial intelligence used by Velvet Sundown
Like several branches, the music industry has also been involved in issues and dilemmas about the use of artificial intelligence today. In the case of music, the Sun It is one of the most commonly used features to create songs from previous commands.
The tool, as well as Sidio And others allows users who do not master any instrument or the technical aspects of composition can generate music from simple text commands. Just describe and the platform returns with a result.
The artificial intelligence of Sun It is based on a vast framework of existing original songs to extract a new song, created from this initial DNA. Interestingly, there is a restriction: the describing in text does not allow the use of names of artists and bands.
Controversy with
This practice, of course, has generated controversy and even legal disputes. Record labels as Sony, Universal and Warner have already sued Sun and Duy considering that such tools violate copyright.
Mikey Shulmanexecutive president of Suncountered the accusation in a press release (via CNN Brazil):
“Our technology is transformative; it is designed to generate completely new results, not to memorize and regurgitate pre -existing content.”
Velvet Sundown Future
While the debate persists, the Velvet sundown Already have one more album on the way. Paper Sun Rebellionthird album of the band created with artificial intelligence, is scheduled for release July 14.
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Source: Rollingstone
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