Man sentenced to 18 months in first US AI music streaming fraud case

Michael Smith of North Carolina was sentenced to 18 months in prison in the first US federal music streaming fraud case, having used about 10,000 bot accounts and AI-generated songs to stream more than Taylor Swift and defraud roughly $8 million in royalties.

2026-10-09 ~ 2026-10-09 · 2 related posts

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