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Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots

cross-posted from: 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? ;-)

clover ,

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

Delphia ,

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

j4k3 ,
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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.

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