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This could be an increasingly challenging problem for the industry. https://fortune.com/2024/09/05/ai-artificial-intelligence-music-fraud-conspiracy-michael-smith-royalties/
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Paywalled…can you give brief TLDR?
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An indictment in Manhattan federal court said Smith created thousands of accounts on streaming platforms so that he could stream songs continuously, generating about 661,000 streams per day. It said the avalanche of streams yielded annual royalties of $1.2 million. It said Smith, beginning in 2018, teamed up with the chief executive of an artificial intelligence music company and a music promoter to create the songs.
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