A Cornelius man pleaded guilty Thursday to running a music streaming fraud scheme that used artificial intelligence and bot ...

Prosecutors say automated plays of AI-generated songs fraudulently diverted royalties from human artists—to the tune of $8 ...

LONDON, March 18 (Reuters) - Boosted by paid streaming services, global recorded music revenues grew 6.4% to $31.7 billion in ...

North Carolina musician Michael Smith has pleaded guilty to collecting over $10 million in royalty payments through a massive streaming royalty fraud scheme on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and ...

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

It is a feat most Grammy winners never achieve: billions of streams across the world’s largest platforms. But for Michael ...

To obtain the volume of tracks needed for the scheme to work, Smith turned to AI, using it to generate hundreds of thousands of songs. Those songs were streamed by his bot accounts billions of times, ...

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

Overview: AI music generators help creators compose full songs, cinematic scores, and background soundtracks with faster production workflows.Platforms like Sun ...

Elisabeth Moss, Kerry Washington and Kate Mara teaming up to star in a new psychological thriller for Apple TV called “Imperfect Women” and fresh music from both BTS and Luke Combs are some of the new ...

Today, Spotify has grown into the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service and the highest-paying retailer globally — paying the music industry over $11 billion last year. The Swedish ...