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original title: using ai to write songs and then using robots to play them in a loop to earn royalties, an american man was sued for defrauding streaming platforms of $10 million

it home reported on september 6 that the u.s. department of justice recently sued a man named michael smith, who allegedly used robots and ai technology to defraud streaming platforms such as amazon music, apple music, spotify, and youtube music, and illegally obtained royalties of up to 10 million u.s. dollars (it home note: currently approximately rmb 70.922 million).

it is reported that relevant music streaming platforms will pay a certain percentage of royalties to creators based on the number of song plays. smith took advantage of this mechanism and used robots to continuously loop his music on major streaming platforms. it is estimated that these robots loop related songs up to 661,000 times a day, which can bring smith about $1.2 million (about 8.5099 million rmb) in copyright income each year.

after 2018, michael smith decided to use ai to mass-produce more music. in 2018, he worked with an ai music company to create hundreds of thousands of songs using scripts. these songs not only had different names, but smith also created different authors for them to deceive streaming platforms.

currently, michael smith has been indicted by the u.s. department of justice on charges of "wire fraud, money laundering conspiracy" and is expected to face more than 20 years in prison.