Michael Smith, 54, was sentenced for taking part in a scheme to "defraud music streaming platforms and musicians of royalty ...

Prosecutors say Michael Smith flooded music-streaming platforms with bots that repeatedly streamed his A.I.-generated music, ...

A 54-year-old North Carolina man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for using up to 10,000 bot accounts to ...

Michael Smith, 54, gets 18 months for stealing $8M in royalties via AI songs and bot streams — the first U.S. sentence of its kind ...

By flooding music streaming platforms with automated bots in the place of consumers, and fake songs in the place of ...

Micheal Smith was found to have used bot accounts to generate "billions" of fake streams of AI music on platforms such as ...

The US Justice Department has sentenced a man to 18 months in prison in what it describes as its first-ever criminal case involving AI music streaming fraud.

Michael Smith sentenced in streaming royalty fraud, using AI bots to fraudulently collect over $10M in music royalties across ...

A North Carolina man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for collecting millions in royalties from bot-farming streams ...

A Cornelius man used artificial intelligence to create songs and fake streaming accounts to play those songs in a scheme that ...

Intelligence Assisted Music Streaming Fraud Jamie McDonald, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that MICHAEL SMITH was sentenced to 18 months in prison ...