A man had pleaded guilty after using over 1,000 bots to artificially boost streams on AI-generated songs, making him rich in ...

From 2017 to 2024, 52-year-old Michael Smith, from Cornelius, North Carolina, and his co-conspirators ran a large-scale fraud scheme that artificially boosted the stream counts of ...

"Although the songs and listeners were fake, the millions of dollars Smith stole was real." ...

Michael Smith, 52, charged after flooding platforms with thousands of AI songs and boosting them with bots Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox A North ...

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A North Carolina man has agreed to repay over £6.5 million ($8 million) after pleading guilty in what officials are calling the first-ever criminal case involving AI-assisted music streaming fraud.