“He would quickly generate these songs, turn up some musical artists, spray them onto the platforms, and then he would basically create networks of bots to stream all of the songs on loops.”

The Vergecast · The $8 million AI music scam

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What was described

Generated AI songs with Boomi, created fictitious artist profiles, uploaded tracks via music distribution services, and built a network of bots to stream the songs on repeat

8,091,843.64 cents (repayment amount)

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