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

Industry people got big mad at me when I was like..so?

Gamed the system, whatever. *Definitely* not worth criminal charges. Make dude pay back and be done with it.

@jrm4 @brucelawson Why make him pay it back? It's their business model that leaks money like a sieve. Not fair to blame the guy who gets wet.

@rupert @brucelawson

Fair to me, I was arguing against someone who wanted *criminal* charges and that was the compromise