Michael Smith, 54, was sentenced for taking part in a scheme to "defraud music streaming platforms and musicians of royalty ...

The first-ever criminal case involving AI-assisted music streaming fraud has concluded, with an American citizen facing 18 months behind bars and an $8M fine.

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North Carolina man Michael Smith was sentenced to 18 months in prison after using AI-generated music and thousands of bot ...

Michael Smith’s AI songs and bot accounts outstreamed Taylor Swift on YouTube Music family plans and drew more than $14 million from royalty payers. The prison ...

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Federal prosecutors have secured an 18-month prison sentence against a North Carolina resident who used super intelligence to ...

By flooding music streaming platforms with automated bots in the place of consumers, and fake songs in the place of ...

Michael Smith, 52, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for using “super intelligence” and bot farms to artificially inflate streams on his songs to return a profit and, in turn, defraud ...

Prosecutors say Michael Smith flooded music-streaming platforms with bots that repeatedly streamed his A.I.-generated music, ...

Micheal Smith was found to have used bot accounts to generate "billions" of fake streams of AI music on platforms such as ...

Michael Smith sentenced in streaming royalty fraud, using AI bots to fraudulently collect over $10M in music royalties across ...