Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots
Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots

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Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots

That's weird. I thought AI didn't infringe on copyright...
The charges appear to stem from faking listener traffic to get royalties from the streaming services, not from infringing copyrights—the fact that it was AI-generated is probably irrelevant.
As far as I can tell, it's fraud and has nothing to do with copyright.
RTFA