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US man gets first federal streaming fraud sentence over AI songs

Original: 🎧 Мужчина заработал $8 млн на ботах, которые круглосуточно слушали сгенерированные ИИ песни, и получил первый в США феде

Michael Smith, 54, earned around $8 million by using bots that played AI-generated songs around the clock on music platforms via thousands of fake accounts, and has received the first federal sentence in the United States for streaming fraud. American media report he manipulated play counts to collect royalties for music no human was actually listening to.

Why now: The first federal conviction for streaming fraud highlights growing concerns about AI-generated music and automated royalty manipulation.

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