Fake AI songs streamed billions of times, netting fraudster $10 million
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A North Carolina man pleaded guilty to running an AI-assisted streaming fraud scheme that generated hundreds of thousands of fake songs and used thousands of automated bot accounts and scripted playback on cloud infrastructure to stream those tracks billions of times from 2017–2024, diverting over $10 million in royalties from legitimate artists and rights holders; he admitted conspiracy to commit wire fraud and agreed to forfeit $8,091,843.64.
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