Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots: The feds seem to have him dead to rights. https://futurism.com/man-arrested-fake-bands-streams-ai 😱
Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots

An alleged scammer has been arrested under suspicion that he used AI to create a wild number of fake bands — and fake streams to with them.

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@nixCraft hopefully this is the beginning of the end for freemium content models that screw over artists. This kind of advertiser revenue abuse will surely become rife now everyone knows how to do it? 😎
And advertising clients will start demanding the streaming platforms prove they are reaching real people. Not bots!