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Beyond video, there is AI music; one band, Velvet Sundown, had its AI-generated folk song “Dust on the Wind” climb to the top of Spotify’s Viral 50 charts, despite the fact that the band members [don’t actually exist](https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/2025/07/08/velvet-sundown-artificial-intelligence-spotify/).

Making cash off ‘AI slop’: The surreal business of AI video

Drew Harwell & Gerrit De Vynck & Shira Ovide & Chris Velazco & Dan Lamothe & Tara & Alex Horton & Nick Mourtoupalas & Eric Lau & Hannah Dormido

We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.

The Information

James Gleick

The punched card, the cash register, the nineteenth-century Difference Engine, the wires of telegraphy all played their parts in weaving the spiderweb of information to which we cling. Each new information technology, in its own time, set off blooms in storage and transmission.

The Information

James Gleick

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