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CHARBONNEAU – Music made by nobody for an audience of no one

MICHAEL SMITH of North Carolina is being charged with the theft of millions of dollars of royalty payments intended for real artists. In an elaborate scheme, he allegedly used artificial intelligence to generate songs he claimed were his, then named the songs and invented artists who played them. Then he supposedly streamed the AI-generated songs on streaming services, such as Amazon Music, Apple Music and Spotify. The money started to roll in, a fraction of a penny at a time. Streaming only pays significant amounts through the volume of streams. Smith, according to legal documents, created an artificial audience to listen to his artificial music. Smith’s audience of thousands of fake streaming accounts was created using e-mail addresses he had purchased online. Authorities contend he had as many as 10,000 accounts, even outsourcing the task to paid co-conspirators when creating the accounts became too much work. To make the fictitious listeners appear real, they had to appear to be listening from various computers. So he allegedly created software to stream his music from different computers. Artists, real and fictional, are paid a paltry sum for each stream. There’s no way that struggling artists can make a living that way. Spotify, [...]

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CHARBONNEAU – Music made by nobody for an audience of no one

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