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American jailed for commanding 10,000 bots to stream his own AI-generated songs and earn millions in fraudulent royalty payments, beating Taylor Swift — is the first person to end up in prison for AI-assisted music streaming crime


In April 2023, Smith’s AI-created songs were streamed 80.9 million times on YouTube Music, nearly 9x more than Taylor Swift.

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