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AMERICAN MUSICIAN MICHAEL SMITH JAILED 18 MONTHS FOR USING BOTS TO STREAM AI SONGS BILLIONS OF TIMES AND POCKET $8 MILLION
American musician Michael Smith has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison after admitting that he used thousands of bot accounts to stream hundreds of thousands of AI generated songs billions of times, fraudulently collecting more than $8 million in royalties. Prosecutors said Smith created fake artist identities including Calliope Bloom, Calm Baseball and Calvin Mann and used song titles including Zygotes, Zygotic Lanie and Zymopure as part of the operation. He was also sentenced to two years of supervised release and ordered to forfeit $8,091,843.64.
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