Federal authorities hit a North Carolina man with charges arising from allegations that he fraudulently earned streaming royalties through a scheme involving bots and AI-generated songs. The man, ...

In the first case of its kind in the country, a Charlotte-area man is charged with using AI to manipulate music streaming platforms to siphon off over $10 million in royalties, federal authorities ...

Reddit has announced a major mod policy change that will stop bots from automatically banning users for participating in ...

What just happened? In what appears to be a devious use of generative AI and bots, a man has been accused of conning music services out of $12 million by uploading AI-generated music tracks and using ...

Federal prosecutors today charged a North Carolina musician who’d taken in around $10 million in royalties from his AI-generated songs that were streamed by the bots he deployed. Michael Smith, a ...

A North Carolina man is accused of using bot accounts to trick streaming platforms into paying him over $10 million in royalties. Michael Smith, 52, was indicted on three counts in a New York federal ...