There’s a ghost band on Spotify with over 600,000 fans, and no one seems to care that it isn’t real.
It’s called The Velvet Sundown, a 1960s-style folk-rock outfit that sounds like they cut their teeth touring Big Sur and opening for Buffalo Springfield. Only problem? They never toured. Never rehearsed. Never had a fight backstage or made a bad creative decision over a bottle of gin.
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Because they don’t exist.
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They’re AI. Fully synthetic. Every lyric, vocal, guitar lick, album cover, and even the names of the “band members” are all generated by artificial intelligence and uploaded to a platform that is used to champion the human soul.
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