Man used AI songs and 10,000 bots to collect $8M in fraudulent music royalties, prosecutors say

The scheme used AI-generated music and up to 10,000 bot accounts at a time to rack up millions of dollars in fraudulent streaming royalties.

10,000 bot accounts, AI songs: US man jailed for $8-million streaming fraud

Michael Smith, 54, was sentenced for taking part in a scheme to "defraud music streaming platforms and musicians of royalty ...

US man jailed $8 million AI music streaming fraud; 10,000 bot accounts generated millions of fake streams, outperformed Taylor Swift

US man Michael Smith jailed for 18 months after using AI songs and 10,000 bots to commit $8 million streaming fraud.

Man Sentenced to Prison for Bot Streams of AI Songs

A North Carolina man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for collecting millions in royalties from bot streams of ...
United States Department of Justice

North Carolina Man Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison For Super Intelligence-Assisted Music Streaming Fraud

Jamie McDonald, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that MICHAEL SMITH was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud music ...

[Mahjong Soul] A test stream on Twitch for the first time in a while | 1.5 hours of testing English subtitles and an AI bot

PM on October 11th. It lasted for about an hour and a half.It has been quite a while since I last streamed. I have been away ...
HotNewHipHop

Bots & Artificial Streams Are Killing Hip Hop

Streaming bots and fake plays are shaking Hip Hop. Numbers have always mattered in music, but artificial streams are polluting the culture. The cleanest way to understand what happened with 21 Savage ...
Forbes

Spotify Accused Of Ignoring ‘Billions’ Of Fraudulent Drake Streams—What We Know About Bot Streams

A federal lawsuit filed Sunday in California federal court accuses Spotify of failing to prevent streaming fraud, including by allowing “billions” of bot-generated streams that allegedly boosted ...