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    Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots
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    Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots

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    1. MetaKnowing on

      “Smith allegedly worked with the help of two unnamed accomplices — a music promoter and the CEO of an AI music firm — to create “hundreds of thousands of songs” that he then “fraudulently stream[ed,” the indictment explains.

      Around that same time, the CEO of the AI music company, which also has not been named, began allegedly providing the musician with “thousands of songs” on a weekly basis. Smith in turn would then use automation to generate tons of listens for the crappy tunes.

      To manufacture streams for these fake songs, Smith allegedly used bots that stream the songs billions of times without any real person listening.”

    2. New-Acadia-6496 on

      If bots made this music, then how do we know he forced the other bots to listen to it? Maybe they just like bot music? For reference, I like human music and am human.

    3. Glodraph on

      Suddenly when it comes to profit, now humans are valued more than AI bots huh? So if a bit listens to music it’s not the same as a human. But when talking about workforce, welfare and salary, they gladly replace humans with bots lmao.

    4. Firm_Ad_7229 on

      Arrested? I don’t see that he did anything wrong, sounds like someone is mad he figured out how to monetize a computer.

    5. OkTerm8316 on

      I don’t see what he did wrong. Does the terms of service require a human to listen to these songs? To write these songs?

      I’m curious to see where this case goes.

    6. ThisIsDadLife on

      And why is this illegal? Genuinely asking. Seems like he just was smart enough to game the system but I’m sure I’m missing something.

    7. Branagen on

      But it’s okay for companies and politicians to use bots to inflate their numbers. Not much different than paying people to write good reviews.

    10. jaeldi on

      Hey, CEO’s are always leading the way to take advantage of legal/possible situations, running the ‘formula’ of profit versus fines (see Fight Club for excellent example of ‘the formula’), I don’t see what this person did as too much different.

      This is why I don’t want a president that has spent most of his life in a CEO culture of ‘what can we afford to get away with’, even a possible “benign” CEO like Mark Cuban or Bill Gates. No thanks. They all operate in a mode of ‘hack the systems to maximize profit’. Ethics are not a priority for them, just as it wasn’t for this guy who made money by inflicting this new tech on them the same way it’s being inflicted on society.

      Aren’t there already billions of bots upvoting for corporate gains & political interests a ton of misinformation? How is this different? There are bots engaging with bots on all social media, and that boosts ad revenue numbers.

    11. Hushwater on

      What about the other people profiting off artifical consumers/followers coupled with AI generated content from stolen content? Why does this get attention over the other?