-> First criminal case of streaming fraud by AI. And it's completely insane. A North Carolina man used AI to generate hundreds of thousands of songs. He put them on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon. Then he botted billions of streams on his own tracks. -> 660,000 fake streams per day. Distributed across thousands of titles so nobody noticed anything. -> $1.2 million per year. For music that no human has ever listened to. -> Result: $8 million pocketed. Meanwhile, real artists struggle at $0.003 per stream, do promo on TikTok, beg for playlist placements. Him? AI made both the music AND the audience. He got caught. He has to repay the $8 million. But this problem goes beyond him: The music industry spent 10 years fighting piracy. Now it has to fight songs that don't exist, listened to by people who don't exist. And since this case, AI has only gotten better. The playbook is public. Tomorrow's fraud will be even harder to detect. AI doesn't just change creation. It also changes cheating. [Translated from EN to English]

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