Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots
The feds seem to have him dead to rights.
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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
Should have stopped at a dollar amount that'd be under the radar.
This is wild.
The AI Music CEO was unnamed. I wonder if they are uncharged and keeping their fees.
AI music may be just the business to be in.
Something something Dead Internet Theory
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