nixCraft 🐧Sep 8, 2024
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 Another story from last year. https://gizmodo.com/spotify-ai-music-generator-purges-bots-listening-songs-1850419032
Spotify Purges Thousands of AI Songs to Stop Bots From Streaming Them

In addition to fake music, artificial intelligence has created a big new problem for Spotify: fake listeners. It's an infinite loop of "artificial streaming."

Gizmodo
Sep 9, 2024 at 7:45amWeb