FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist - eviltoast
Feds say it's the first US criminal case involving artificially inflated music streaming.

If he had been less greedy, he might have got away with it.

  • gencha@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Yes and no:

    For example, on or about December 26, 2018, SMITH emailed two coconspirators that, “We need to get a TON of songs fast to make this work around the anti-fraud policies these guys are all using now.”

    To obtain the necessary number of songs for his scheme to succeed, SMITH eventually turned to artificial intelligence. In or about 2018, SMITH began working with the Chief Executive Officer of an AI music company (“CC-3”) and a music promoter (“CC-4”) to create hundreds of thousands of songs using artificial intelligence that SMITH could then fraudulently stream. CC-3 soon began providing SMITH with thousands of songs each week that SMITH could upload to the Streaming Platforms and manipulate the streams for.