Musician charged with $10M streaming royalties fraud using AI and bots
September 5, 2024 at 12:50PM Musician Michael Smith faces charges for a streaming fraud scheme, accused of using AI-generated songs streamed by thousands of bots to collect over $10 million in royalty payments from Spotify, Amazon, Apple, and YouTube Music. He employed over 1,000 bot accounts and manipulated streaming data to avoid detection. The scheme … Read more