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The North Carolina man earned more than $8 million in royalties from streaming platforms after using thousands of bot accounts to stream his AI-generated songs billions of times.

forbes.comNorth Carolina Man Gets 18-Month Prison Sentence For $8 Million AI Music Streaming FraudThe North Carolina man earned more than $8 million in royalties from streaming platforms after using thousands of bot accounts to stream his AI-generated songs billions of times.

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It is well known that Elon Musk uses huge numbers of bot accounts to manipulate the number of impressions on his site, and then uses those numbers to sell advertising at higher rates. If they can imprison a random NC guy for this, shouldn't Elon Musk be in prison too?

How is this fraud? The AI companies are profiting off of other people’s work by selling LLM services? How is selling what you created by using AI any different? It sounds like AI might be useless if it’s a crime to use it.

Rich people break law get money. Poor people break law get prison, become slaves for rich people. A b o l i s h the police. Your reforms got you electro torture gloves for the secret Nazi police. We’re done with trying your “reforms”