7/14/2025–|Last update: 16:50 (Mecca time)
One of the singers teams managed to reach the first rank in the most listened songs through the “Spotify” platform in the past days, before the band revealed that it is fully born using artificial intelligence, according to the “Guardian” report.
The official account of the “The Velvet Sundown” in the “Spotify” platform reached more than a million listeners per month, after release two albums of successful songs and despite the fact that it was not more than two weeks on the platform before the band’s truth was revealed according to the report.
The disclosure of the truth of the band came through a person who claims to be an auxiliary member of the band, as he said that all of its songs are born using an artificial musical intelligence tool called “Suno” as well as the fact that the entire project is closer to an artistic trick because everything related to the band, including the story of its members and pictures, is born using artificial intelligence, according to the “Guardian” report.
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But at first, the band’s accounts were denied through social media platforms, explaining that the identity of the band was stolen, after which it launched an official statement confirming that it was born with artificial intelligence, according to the “Guardian” report.
The appearance and success of the band caused a sensation among the musicians, as there are no laws that force Spotify and other broadcasting platforms to clarify whether or not musical clips are born using artificial intelligence, according to statements published by “Guardian”.
For his part, Roberto Neri, CEO of Evors Music Academy, in his conversation with “Guardian”, explained that the emergence of such teams raises many questions about property rights, creativity and transparency, adding that artificial intelligence, if morally used, can enhance the writing of songs, but expressed his organization about the use of artificial intelligence to generate music.
Sophie Jones, the chief strategic in the British Voice Registration Industry Authority, believes that clarifying the source of music and developing signs of distinction of music generated by artificial intelligence is the solution, stressing that the role of artificial intelligence is to enhance human creativity and not replace it, according to the “Guardian” report.
The report pointed out that the absence of information about the artificial intelligence model used by the band and the music clips that it relied on in his training, Yuhane by exploiting some music clips of independent artists without clarifying this.
On this matter, Jones said that the appearance of the singing teams born with artificial intelligence and their success in this way confirms that technical companies were training artificial intelligence models using some creative works without obtaining the necessary licenses from artists or financially compensating them for the use of their works and their great success.
The CEO of innovation at the Deezer stressed to broadcast music while talking to “Guardian”, that the platform relies on a tool for detecting clips born using artificial intelligence and putting the necessary signs on them, and added that the platforms need to put the signs of user predicts that these clips are born with artificial intelligence or not, for a limited period until the art is generated With artificial intelligence, it is popular.
For its part, an official in “Spotify” told the newspaper that the platform does not depend on promoting musical clips generated by artificial intelligence, as well as the fact that all the musical materials on the platform are the property of the external ends that it raised inside the platform, and it is reported that “Spotify” currently does not put marks for the clips born using artificial intelligence.
