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 this simple maths bug has already been fixed by Deezer, not sure why other streaming services are stuck in their old way https://support.deezer.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360002471277-Artist-Centric-Payment-Model-ACPS
Artist-Centric Payment Model (ACPS)

In this article, we want to introduce one of the less understood areas of music streaming - how royalty payments work. We'll explain a bit about how payments work under the system that all streamin...

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