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Music Producer Accused of Using AI Songs to Scam Streaming Platforms Out of $10 Million in Royalties
Michael Smith, a 52-year-old music producer, is accused of generating more than $10 million in illicit royalties using AI-generated songs.
A music producer was arrested Wednesday and charged with multiple felonies for allegedly scamming more than $10 million in royalties using hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs. “We need to get a TON of songs fast to make this work around the anti fraud policies these guys are all using now,” he wrote to two co-conspirators, according to the indictment. He also bought vast quantities of email addresses to set up fake accounts and used a VPN service to disguise that he was controlling them all from his house, the indictment states.
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