Overview

• The Velvet Sundown updated its Spotify biography on July 8 to reveal it is a synthetic music project created with AI support under human artistic direction.
• Its new profile describes the work as “not a hoax but a mirror” meant to question the limits of creation, identity and music’s future in the AI era.
• Spotify stated it does not favor or financially benefit from AI-generated tracks and affirmed that all uploads come from authorized third parties.
• Deezer continues to flag the group’s albums with “Contenu généré par IA” warnings, illustrating diverging disclosure policies among platforms.
• Deezer reports more than 20,000 fully AI-produced tracks received daily, intensifying industry concerns over royalties and the livelihood of human musicians.