The first U.S. criminal case involving AI and artificially inflated music streaming… very interesting.
After reading the article, I think we can all agree that if what he did wasn’t illegal, it certainly should have been. It pretty much sounds like stealing.
FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist [Ars Technica] – “On Wednesday, federal prosecutors charged a North Carolina musician with defrauding streaming services of $10 million through an elaborate scheme involving AI, as reported by The New York Times. Michael Smith, 52, allegedly used AI to create hundreds of thousands of fake songs by nonexistent bands, then streamed them using bots to collect royalties from platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music.”
$10 million over 7 years, wow!