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Massive AI streaming fraud farm busted by the FBI

The FBI has unraveled a years-long scheme to defraud streaming services with bot accounts and AI-generated music.

Jason Weisberger
Sep 05, 2024
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The FBI has unraveled a years-long scheme to defraud streaming services with bot accounts and AI-generated music.

This RollingStone article describes a confusing scheme in which a gentleman set up a huge bot network to allegedly play and share AI-generated ripoffs of actual artists' music. Millions of dollars in payments were directed to fake accounts, w…

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