North Carolina musician 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 upwards of $10 million from platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music.
Feds say it's the first US criminal case involving artificially inflated music streaming.
I suspect “artificial intelligence” is a proxy for “algorithmically generation” since his co-conspirators and he started creating the music before generative AI became widely available.
Oh no, Calorie Screams isn’t a real band???😩
Is that even against their official rules? I would imagine their terms of service hadn't even considered the situation. It's not like he plagiarized someone else's music.
Hey! It's just AI bots listening to their own music! How's that illegal? ;)
fucking ridiculous that *** a thing he made *** is illegal and actionable but the AI machines gobbling everyone's art with no license is something we can't do anything about.
He got greedy.
Are they going to arrest all the CEOs of major music labels too?