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Up to 70% of streams of AI-generated music on Deezer are fraudulent, says report
According to the French streaming platform’s analysis, fraudsters use bots to listen to AI-generated music and take the royalties
Fraudsters typically generate revenue on platforms such as Deezer by using bots to “listen” to AI-generated songs – and take the subsequent royalty payments, which become sizeable once spread across multiple tracks. The tactic aims to evade detection measures triggered by vast listening numbers for a small amount of bogus tracks. Last year, a musician in the US, Michael Smith, was charged in connection with a scheme to create hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs and stream them billions of times, obtaining $10m in royalty payments.
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