An alleged scammer has been arrested under suspicion that he used AI to create a wild number of fake bands — and fake streams to with them.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19494425

The artist naming convention also followed a somewhat similar pattern, with names ranging from the normal-sounding “Calvin Mann” to head-scratchers like “Calorie Event,” “Calms Scorching,” and “Calypso Xored.”

That one of you? ;-)

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    3 months ago

    Artist was really dialed in to their audience. Don’t hate. The streamer service is a bot. The ad system is a bot. The payment system is a bot. This man did to others as they did to him.

  • clover@slrpnk.netEnglish
    17·
    3 months ago

    Not sure why this is illegal. Against the company’s terms of service, sure. But the government shouldn’t be involved.

    • Delphia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      I’m quite sure he will have committed fraud at least 1 or 2 times in there somewhere.

    • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Indicted on three counts involving money laundering and wire fraud, the Charlotte-area man faces a maximum of 20 years per charge.

  • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    So Spotify and other platforms coughYouTubecoughcough are going to crack down on bots overinflating views/listens? No? Okay then.