An "indie rock band" called The Velvet Sundown, which is marketing its music with seemingly AI-generated pictures of members that also don't appear to exist, is now claiming that "we never use AI." After being publicly accused of heavily relying on AI, a new "official" X account is now attempting to twist the narrative. "Absolutely crazy that so-called 'journalists' keep pushing the lazy, baseless theory that The Velvet Sundown is “AI-generated” with zero evidence," the account wrote in a Sunday tweet. "Not a single one of these 'writers' has reached out, visited a show, or listened beyond the Spotify algorithm." […]