Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊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?
Cassandrich@brucelawson Dumbass. Probably would have gotten away with it if he'd kept it an order of magnitude or two smaller.
No Way@dalias @brucelawson I know at least two people that do this that make less than $50k a year. Not defrauded Spotify but defrauding their advertisers. Also not new from AI, they been doing it roughly about a decade. Bots aren't new. Making them at scale though, that now is so easy a caveman can do it instead of tech people aware that size can make you noticeable.
Pretty sure the internet is mostly dead now. I wouldn't pay for any advertising unless your targets are bots
WilliamBob@nowayeast - once upon the last millennium some porn sites could be made to click every ad. Good fun. Until... expensive lawyers fron that dirty valley of L.A. Made credible threats. Seeing as it was them, metallic and more suing and winning compliance wasn't hard😬But some were!