20 september 2024
A 10 million dollar scam
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The $10 million scam. A story about a musician who created songs with the help of AI. 52-year-old Michael Smith from North Carolina, using 10 thousand bots, broadcast songs generated by artificial intelligence on various streaming services. About this writes Rolling Stone The musician began his fraudulent activities in 2017, and in 2018 he began to cooperate with a music company that began to provide thousands of songs generated by AI in violation of copyright. The head of the company provided Smith with thousands of tracks every month in exchange for metadata and a percentage of the streaming revenue. During this time, Smith streamed songs billions of times on platforms such as Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube Music, earning at least $10 million, the court documents say. Using the profiles, he automatically generated up to 661 thousand daily...