Feds Score Guilty Plea in First-Ever U.S. Streaming Fraud Case — An $8M Scheme Aided by AI Music

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 streaming royalty fraud scheme on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and YouTube Music.

Feds Score Guilty Plea in First-Ever U.S. Streaming Fraud Case — An $8M Scheme Aided by AI Music

A musician accused in an AI song streaming fraud case has pled guilty to orchestrating an $8 million scheme that relied on AI-generated music.

Man Pleads Guilty to Defrauding Streaming Services of $8 Million With AI-Generated Songs

Mike Smith pleaded guilty to defrauding music-streaming services out of $8 million with AI-generated songs.

From North Carolina To New York: $8 Million Fake AI Music Empire That Just Hit A Sour Note - Tampa Free Press

A North Carolina man admitted in a Manhattan federal court today that he used a massive army of bots and artificial intelligence to siphon millions of dollars from the music industry. Michael Smith, 54, of Cornelius, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud before U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl, marking the […] From North Carolina To New York: $8 Million Fake AI Music Empire That Just Hit A Sour Note

A man accused of using thousands of bot accounts to stream AI songs, making millions in royalties, pleads guilty in US district court to wire fraud conspiracy

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Singer-Songwriter Pleads Guilty To Defrauding Streaming Services With AI-Generated Songs

A North Carolina singer-songwriter is on the hook for more than $8 million in fraudulent streaming royalties racked up with AI-generated tracks and bots, Rolling Stone reports. In US district court today, Mike Smith, 54, pled guilty to defrauding streaming services by flooding them with hundreds of thousands of AI-generated tracks and accumulating billions of…