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International Business Times
International Business Times
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Luke Funk

Man Created AI Songs And Used Bots To Collect $10M In Royalty Payments From Streaming Services: Indictment

A United States man is accused in the first criminal case involving collecting royalties on bogus music streams using AI-produced music and bots to rack up billions of fake streams.

Michael Smith, 52, is accused of a scheme to create hundreds of thousands of songs with artificial intelligence and the use of automated "bot" programs to repeatedly stream the songs on platforms like Apple Music, Amazon Music, Spotify and YouTube Music.

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