Deepfake case study · Multi-modal
Real music artists on Spotify deepfake (Jun 2025)
An AI-generated band, The Velvet Sundown, appeared on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, and YouTube and has garnered enough streams to make thousands of dollars a month. The band has no prior digital…
- Incident date
- Jun 2025
- Target
- Real music artists on Spotify
Updated May 6, 2026 · 1 min read
An AI-generated band, The Velvet Sundown, appeared on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, and YouTube and has garnered enough streams to make thousands of dollars a month. The band has no prior digital footprint and its members do not appear to exist. Images on the band's Instagram page appear to be AI-generated.