Mike Smith was indicted in 2024 after using AI and bots to generate and stream thousands of songs, siphoning millions of dollars away from recording artists.

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North Carolina musician Michael Smith has pleaded guilty to collecting over $10 million in royalty payments through a massive streaming royalty fraud scheme on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and ...

Michael Smith, a 54-year-old North Carolina man whom federal prosecutors accused of defrauding music streaming services with AI-generated songs, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit ...

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Anthropic’s rapid development of its new technology is no excuse for its egregious law-breaking,” the new complaint says ...

Music giant Sony Music says it has requested the removal of more than 135,000 songs by fraudsters impersonating its artists on streaming services. The so-called deepfakes were cre ...

Rapper Afroman, who was sued by Ohio police after his music videos used footage from a 2022 police raid, defended his work ...

Music ⁠company ⁠BMG Rights Management has ⁠sued artificial intelligence startup Anthropic in California ​federal court for allegedly using its copyrighted lyrics to ‌train the large language models ...

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