At times Smith was using as many as 10,000 bot accounts at once to fraudulently stream music.

North Carolina man gets 18 months and forfeits $8 million for using AI to fake billions of streams on Spotify, Apple Music, ...

Michael Smith, a North Carolina man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for using artificial intelligence ...

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Jamie McDonald, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that MICHAEL SMITH was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud music ...

Musician Michael Smith gets 18 months in prison for an $8 million AI music streaming fraud scheme involving fake listeners ...

Michael Smith, 54, was sentenced for taking part in a scheme to "defraud music streaming platforms and musicians of royalty ...

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A North Carolina man gets 18 months in the first federal AI music streaming fraud case, stealing $8M in royalties via bots.

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TRAG Cinema Pictures US musician Michael Smith has been sentenced by a Manhattan federal court to 18 months in prison for ...

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