A few days ago, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York sentenced 54-year-old Michael Smith to 18 months in prison for fraud involving AI-generated music and artificially inflated streaming numbers 😳😳 This is also the first criminal case of its kind in the United States.
So how exactly did he do it? First, he used AI tools to generate hundreds of thousands of songs in bulk, then uploaded them to major platforms like Spotify and Apple Music to collect royalties. He then used bots to rack up streams. Over seven years, this scheme earned him $8.09 million...
And this guy was arrested back in 2024. If he’d used today’s AI, he’d only have made even more #神操作
So how exactly did he do it? First, he used AI tools to generate hundreds of thousands of songs in bulk, then uploaded them to major platforms like Spotify and Apple Music to collect royalties. He then used bots to rack up streams. Over seven years, this scheme earned him $8.09 million...
And this guy was arrested back in 2024. If he’d used today’s AI, he’d only have made even more #神操作