AI Music Fraudster Forced To Face The Music With 18-Month Sentence

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by ServeTheHome / The Next Platform / KitGuru / HotHardware at 07 Oct, 15:48 UTC

A North Carolina musician has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for orchestrating an automated streaming fraud scheme that siphoned over $10 million in royalty payouts using artificial intelligence and bot farms. Michael Smith, a musician and former industry executive (not to be…