"Although the songs and listeners were fake, the millions of dollars Smith stole was real," U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton said.

During a demonstration, cybersecurity experts showed how readily available apps can transform a person's appearance in real ...

To obtain the volume of tracks needed for the scheme to work, Smith turned to AI, using it to generate hundreds of thousands ...

From 2017 to 2024, 52-year-old Michael Smith, from Cornelius, North Carolina, and his co-conspirators ran a large-scale fraud scheme that artificially boosted the stream counts of ...

Mike Smith was indicted in 2024 after using AI and bots to generate and stream thousands of songs, siphoning millions of ...

Michael Smith stole over $10 million in royalties ...

Prosecutors say automated plays of AI-generated songs fraudulently diverted royalties from human artists—to the tune of $8 ...

Mike Smith agreed to return the money he was paid in royalties as he awaits sentencing ...

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Michael Smith, 52, charged after flooding platforms with thousands of AI songs and boosting them with bots ...

The Fargo Police Department has drawn criticism for jailing a woman for more than five months after artificial intelligence ...

A newly discovered type of malware uses machine learning to automatically interact with ads and commit fraud. It can also be used to grant hackers access to your screen. The malware is found on ...