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Viral Spotify band was AI all along
Plus: mosquito military drones.
Amandeep Singh
July 03, 2025
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Welcome Humans🤖,
Here is what we have Today:
🎵 AI band fooled 500K Spotify fans.
🤖 Warehouse robots now match human workforce.
💻 xAI's new models target developers and everyone else.
🧠 Centaur AI predicts human choices with scary accuracy.
💼 New Job Opportunities
AI RESEARCH
Scientists may have just cracked the code to human thought.
Researchers at Helmholtz Munich have built an AI model called Centaur that mimics how humans make decisions — with stunning accuracy. How? They trained it on millions of choices gathered from real psychology experiments.
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📊 How they did it:
Trained on 60,000+ participants
Pulled data from 160 psychology studies
Fine-tuned Meta’s LLaMA AI model
Taught to replicate real human decisions
💡 What Centaur can do:
✅ Predicts human choices — even in new, unseen scenarios
✅ Outperformed 14 cognitive models
✅ Dominated 31 out of 32 tasks
✅ Excels in memory, gambling, problem-solving
🧬 What’s next?
Scientists plan to use Centaur as a virtual lab to:
🔍 Test cognitive theories
🧠 Understand how we think
🧘♂️ Explore mental health at scale
⚠️ Why it matters:
Centaur shows that human thought may be far more predictable than we assumed.
That could mean:
Hyper-realistic simulations
Breakthroughs in psychology
OR a new era of ultra-accurate AI decision-making
🧠💥 This isn’t just another chatbot.
This is AI thinking like us — and maybe better.
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AI & MUSIC
500,000 monthly listeners. Two albums. Zero humans.
Spotify got fooled — and so did we.
An AI-generated band just scored half a million monthly listeners on Spotify. And no one knew it wasn’t real.
Image Source: The Velvet Sundown on Spotify
👀 No Digital Trail
Two full albums dropped in June.
But… no band website, no press, no socials.
⚠️ Reddit and musicians called it: “This feels off.”
🧠 Turns Out: It Was AI
Rolling Stone confirmed:
The “band” was an art hoax.
The vocals? Generated with AI tool Suno.
🎙️ Fake Singer, Real Fans
They used Suno’s “Persona” mode to keep a consistent vocal style.
🎶 Realistic enough to land on 30+ Spotify playlists.
🤐 Platforms Stayed Quiet
Deezer flagged it as possible AI
Spotify? No label, no warning, no rules broken
The music just spread.
🎭 Deny, Then Admit
At first: “AI claims are lazy.”
Later: “It’s marketing and trolling,” said band member Andrew Frelon.
✅ Confirmed: Suno was behind some of the tracks.
💡 Why This Matters
Today? We caught the AI.
Tomorrow? We won’t.
Just like V-tubers, people may stop caring who made the content —
as long as it slaps.
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