"Although the songs and listeners were fake, the millions of dollars Smith stole was real." The post Man Pleads Guilty to ...

Indie artists are constantly finding AI-generated impersonations on their streaming pages, and it's only getting worse ...

A Cornelius man pleaded guilty Thursday to running a music streaming fraud scheme that used artificial intelligence and bot ...

Witbe will demonstrate how artificial intelligence is changing streaming services are tested and monitored with the ...

A recent Spotify-ChatGPT deal is one more sign of how AI may be the best defense for a streaming music service in a me-too ...

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

It is a feat most Grammy winners never achieve: billions of streams across the world’s largest platforms. But for Michael Smith, a 54-year-old North Carolina resident, the "fans" didn't exist. They ...

From 2017 to 2024, 52-year-old Michael Smith, from Cornelius, North Carolina, and his co-conspirators ran a large-scale fraud scheme that artificially boosted the stream counts of ...

The case involving a Charlotte-area man is the country's first criminal case over manipulating music streaming platforms through AI.