A man used LLMs to generate hundreds of thousands of "songs", then used bots to stream them billions of times, to collect $8m in royalties. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/north-carolina-man-pleads-guilty-music-streaming-fraud-aided-artificial-intelligence-0 Is there a better metaphor for late-stage capitalism than burning resources to make songs that are never listened to, then steaming them to robots that will never hear them, ad infinitum?

@brucelawson
I'd say he's got the rules of the system down pat.
And if it weren't such an abominable waste of ressources, it would be quite funny, I think.
But being the way it is, it is just irresponsible waste and greed. And I'm soo tired of these greedy irresponsible man-children...
So, not funny - and no pity.

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