Mann verhaftet, weil er mithilfe künstlicher Intelligenz gefälschte Bands erstellte und dann 10 Millionen Dollar verdiente, indem er ihre Songs mit Bots anhörte

„Smith allegedly worked with the help of two unnamed accomplices — a music promoter and the CEO of an AI music firm — to create „hundreds of thousands of songs“ that he then „fraudulently stream[ed,“ the indictment explains.

Around that same time, the CEO of the AI music company, which also has not been named, began allegedly providing the musician with „thousands of songs“ on a weekly basis. Smith in turn would then use automation to generate tons of listens for the crappy tunes.

To manufacture streams for these fake songs, Smith allegedly used bots that stream the songs billions of times without any real person listening.“

Suddenly when it comes to profit, now humans are valued more than AI bots huh? So if a bit listens to music it’s not the same as a human. But when talking about workforce, welfare and salary, they gladly replace humans with bots lmao.

I don’t see what he did wrong. Does the terms of service require a human to listen to these songs? To write these songs?

I’m curious to see where this case goes.

But it’s okay for companies and politicians to use bots to inflate their numbers. Not much different than paying people to write good reviews.

Victimless crime? How the fuck is this even illegal

What about the other people profiting off artifical consumers/followers coupled with AI generated content from stolen content? Why does this get attention over the other?

The way these systems are being gamed to make money while ruining basically everything else reminds me of an apocryphal story.

Story goes as follows… There’s this governor of a colony town in the Caribbean, and the place is beset by rats, not a plague, a plague implies a temporary situation. This place is just heaving with the little fuckers. Boats are cruising on by saying, „We can’t stop here, this is rat country.“

So the governor says, I’ll pay the townspeople to exterminate the rats, we’ll have a bounty for every rat tail that people bring in to the governor’s mansion.

Sure enough he starts doing this and the people start to bring rat tails to him. He pays them and off they go back to town. Rat problem remains, but he figures it has to be making a dent right? They’re killing loads.

Before too much longer people are bringing more and more rat tails. It’s a rat apocalypse. But the rat problem isn’t going away.

He cuts the bounty because he can’t afford to pay so much for each individual tail now, instead of a penny per tail it’s a penny for ten. But he’s still paying out a fortune, the townspeople are killing so many.

Threatened with the risk of spending all his money on rat tails the governor finally wanders into town to see just what the hell is going on.

When he gets there he finds that there are even more rats than before. Not just roaming the streets either.

Every yard for every house in the whole of the town is full of cages. Because every yard for every house in the whole of the town is now a rat farm.

And basically this is what the attention-based economy of the Internet is turning into. Provide the ‚click‘ and get paid, not enough scrutiny as to what’s being clicked on or what’s doing the clicking. Pretty soon, if it’s not already, the Internet is just going to be one big Botnet circle-jerk with human users creeping around on the fringes trying to find what useful resources are left and not to get spammed to death in the process.

This exactly what corporations will be doing in 10 years – while earning a profit!

I’m sure the platform is ok with using inflated numbers generated by bot when it discuss its own ads revenue

Lmao he better should have committed financial crimes in your avg hedge fund. Wall Street makes billions off crime and fraud and they get a slap on the wrist.

I hate to tell you about 80% of the bands out there that are made by record companies.