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US man pleads guilty to defrauding music streamers out of millions using AI
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2026
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He was boosting his streams with bots, which is why it's fraud. By doing this he also tricked the recommendation algorithm to show more of the generated tracks to legit listeners, thereby he removing human listeners from legit artists, hurting their income. (this is also written in the article)