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 ...

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"Although the songs and listeners were fake, the millions of dollars Smith stole was real," U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton said.

To obtain the volume of tracks needed for the scheme to work, Smith turned to AI, using it to generate hundreds of thousands ...

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Mike Smith was indicted in 2024 after using AI and bots to generate and stream thousands of songs, siphoning millions of ...