appearances, starting last September with an appearance in Bradford - that video below.
Haven't been able to find anything else out about them.
Someone - an overzealous fan or possibly a band member because the few posts that weren't just posting the video reminded me of the band's replies on YouTube - spammed hell out of music subreddits on Reddit the last couple of days to promote this video. That's the sort of thing I see most often there with people promoting their own AI music videos. A number of those misguided spam posts with this song have already been removed by moderators there:
https://www.reddit.com/user/jamesr_guitar/
I also saw it posted on Steve Hoffman's music forum, but not by anyone in the band - by someone in Tokyo who called the song catchy but added, "Warning: Turn down volume before playing -- starts out loud."
The video looks very retro, the band having fun with a green screen, but since it isn't simple video or photos of the band performing or miming, I don't know if any AI was used in the video. I hope not, because it would be a bad creative decision.
The start of the video says it was copyright last year, not this year - MMXXV - by "Chokey Pakora Pictures" - but I can't find anything about that supposed entity. And although what's generated by AI can be copyrighted in the UK - unlike the US - the UK apparently hasn't decided who owns the copyright, and it might be whoever owns the AI model that was used, in which case anyone using AI for commercial creativity there could be on really thin ice with copyright:
https://www.moore-law.co.uk/ownership-issues-in-ai-generated-content-who-owns-the-copyright/
Ownership of AI-generated content will vary depending on who is deemed responsible for its creation. Therefore, it could be the developer who created the AI model, the operator who runs the system, or the user who inputs data and prompts the AI.
The law is also unclear on where to draw the line between a work that is purely computer generated and one that is computer-assisted. If an AI operates with minimal human involvement, does that make the work truly AI generated, or does some human input (such as detailed prompt engineering) make the user an author?
Anyway, I'll see what I can find out about this band and whoever did that video...
Last September in Bradford's Roberts Park: