Federal prosecutors in New York have indicted a North Carolina man for a scheme to fraudulently inflate royalties for AI-generated songs streamed online.
Michael Smith, arrested in his home state on Wednesday, is accused of uploading hundreds of thousands of songs created by artificial intelligence to streaming platforms such as Apple Music and Spotify and then using bot accounts to stream the songs billions of times in order to artificially boost the royalties he collected.
His scheme generated more than $10 million in ill-gotten royalty payments, prosecutors claim. The case is the first of its kind, they said.
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