The band's social media and promotion has used hyper-realistic visuals that suggested to listeners the people pictured weren't real and that the music was also AI-generated. Now, the band's owners have updated its Spotify bio to confirm its use of AI alongside some human controlled elements.

In just over a month, the Velvet Sundown had over 1 million monthly streams on Spotify. There was one only problem: It didn’t seem like the Velvet Sundown was really a band at all. There was no evidence online that any of the listed band members were real people.

The truth is finally out: everyone's favorite new Spotify band is absolute generative AI, just as most of us had suspected all along. If you've still not heard about The Velvet Sundown, they're a new musical group taking Spotify by storm,