Man who used 1,000 bots to stream AI songs pleads guilty in $8 million fraud case

From 2017 to 2024, 52-year-old Michael Smith, from Cornelius, North Carolina, and his co-conspirators ran a large-scale fraud scheme that artificially boosted the stream counts of ...
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He used AI to create songs and bots to stream them. It earned him $8M and jail time

A North Carolina man has defrauded music streaming platforms out of $8M in royalties by uploading AI-generated songs and ...
Dexerto

Man used 1,000 bots to stream AI-generated songs & make millions in revenue

A man had pleaded guilty after using over 1,000 bots to artificially boost streams on AI-generated songs, making him rich in ...
AllHipHop

SIGNS: Man Faces Up To 60 Years In Prison For Using Streaming Bots To Generate $12 Million

Unveiling the AI music scandal: Discover how an artist used artificial intelligence and bots to manipulate streaming numbers and commit fraud in the music industry. An artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Musician admits to $10M streaming royalty fraud using AI bots

North Carolina musician Michael Smith has pleaded guilty to collecting over $10 million in royalty payments through a massive ...
Fox Business

Man charged for using bots to stream AI-generated songs for $10M in royalties

Federal authorities hit a North Carolina man with charges arising from allegations that he fraudulently earned streaming royalties through a scheme involving bots and AI-generated songs. The man, ...