Lucas Woodland, frontman of the Welsh post-hardcore band Holding Absence, recently made a disturbing discovery on Spotify: an AI-generated act that cites his band as an influence has more monthly listeners than their human inspiration. Holding Absence has been around for a decade; the AI “band,” Bleeding Verse, only launched …
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Under new rules Spotify announced today, an AI “band” like the now-infamous Velvet Sundown will still be allowed on the service, but would be encouraged to label itself properly from the start. Overall, Spotify has zero intention of eliminating AI-generated music from its service, execs said Tuesday, in a press …
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True or false: In the aftermath of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s death, the rock & roll world has gathered in grief, with leading figures, including Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, and members of Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones, eulogizing him, dedicating songs to him, and even breaking down onstage upon …
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CNN’s Jake Tapper invited former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema on his show last week to, as he put it, “discuss how she’s working with the Trump administration to advance some particular causes about which she is passionate.” Put another way, CNN had on Sinema to talk about issues of relevance to …
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It was inevitable that once people starting noticing the phenomenon, they’d come up with a catchy, descriptive name for it. And sure enough, when one redditor sought help with a partner who had gone down a rabbit hole with ChatGPT to find “the answers to the universe,” she had to …
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They’re the intimate, private moments that fans of classic rockers never get to see. Steven Tyler, hammer and nails in hand, building a doghouse for rescued animals. Mick Jagger, Elton John, and Rod Stewart harmonizing at Ozzy Osbourne’s memorial service. Jagger and Tyler cheering up a bedridden Phil Collins in …
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Clanker. Wireback. Cogsucker. People are feeling the inescapable inevitability of AI developments, the encroaching of the digital into everything from entertainment to work. And their answer? Slurs. AI is everywhere—on Google summarizing search results and siphoning web traffic from digital publishers, on social media platforms like Instagram, X, and Facebook, …
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The only AI program SZA is interested in using is the one she naturally has: “Actual Imagination.” In a series of recent Instagram interactions, the singer criticized the damaging use of artificial intelligence programs thatconsume vital resourcesto function, such as ChatGPT and Elon Musk’s chatbot, Grok. “Ai is killing and …
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The AI band The Velvet Sundown, who currently have over 900,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, have officially admitted —in a new revision to their Spotify bio — what was obvious to experts and non-experts alike: their music is, in fact, AI-generated. “The Velvet Sundown is a synthetic music project guided …
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The pseudonymous Andrew Frelon, who spoke to Rolling Stone on Wednesday as a spokesperson for the viral AI band The Velvet Sundown, and runs a Twitter account that purports to represent the band, was running an elaborate hoax aimed at the media, he now says in a Medium post. The …
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