AI music created for AI listeners(yep, you read it right)

[ThisIsMe]

So it seems this guy used AI to create music, posted it to several streaming platforms, and used AI to create bots to stream the music millions of times. Of course he collected the royalty payments. He almost succeeded in getting away with 8 million bucks.
That's why it made the news.
I wonder how many others there are out there.

I honestly don't know if this is the correct forum for this topic, if any of the mods want to move it, it will not hurt my feelings.
I couldn't decide between here, law and justice, current events or humor.

"The songs and listeners were fake, the millions of dollars stole was real." American fraudster earns eight million dollars streaming AI songs that no human has ever listened to

US man pleads guilty to defrauding musicians and music streaming platforms

www.loudersound.com

"Michael Smith generated thousands of fake songs using artificial intelligence and then streamed those fake songs billions of times,” US Attorney Jay Clayton said in a statement posted on the Department of Justice website.

“Although the songs and listeners were fake, the millions of dollars Smith stole was real. Millions of dollars in royalties that Smith diverted from real, deserving artists and rights holders. Smith’s brazen scheme is over, as he stands convicted of a federal crime for his AI-assisted fraud.”

Aside from the fraud, people ARE creating AI music and uploading it to YouTube to generate income off the YouTube partner program. I hate to say it, some of the music being created isn’t half bad.

 

[ThisIsMe]

After posting this, and thinking about it, I wonder if human musicians might create bots to stream their music to boost their income. Maybe there is already a number of them doing that.

I think that has been going on for while. They say that many of these content creators on YouTube get a lot of bot traffic. Not that they are doing it, but it just happens

 

[ozro]

Aside from the fraud, people ARE creating AI music and uploading it to YouTube to generate income off the YouTube partner program. I hate to say it, some of the music being created isn’t half bad.

My understanding is the fraud is in creating bots to stream the music for the income.
The guy convicted seems to have created the entire scheme based on getting money, and probably doesn't care if the music is any good or not.

 

[MarathonMike]

Aside from the fraud, people ARE creating AI music and uploading it to YouTube to generate income off the YouTube partner program. I hate to say it, some of the music being created isn’t half bad.

The music they are "creating" is an amalgam of thousands of real artists blended together with algorithms, filters and a myriad of effects. And yes it is scary good.