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He was also ordered to repay <strong>$8.09 million<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The sentence includes <strong>two years of supervised release<\/strong>, involving monitoring and restrictions on his freedom. Prosecutors described the case as the first criminal prosecution for <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/us-copyright-office-seeks-comments-on-music-streaming-fraud\/\">AI-assisted streaming fraud<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMichael Smith exploited super intelligence technology to generate a fraud,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Jamie McDonald. \u201cBy flooding music streaming platforms with automated bots in the place of consumers, and fake songs in the place of creativity, Smith robbed millions in royalty payments from genuine artists and their fans.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The operation ran for about seven years, between <strong>2017 and 2024<\/strong>, and involved:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>10,000 automated bot accounts<\/strong>, made to appear legitimate through fraudulently obtained debit cards and fake email addresses.<\/li>\n<li>Billions of plays generated by bots.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Smith distributed the automated streams across thousands of tracks, allowing the scheme to avoid detection for seven years while collecting royalties fraudulently.<\/p>\n<p>During one measured period, the operation reportedly produced more streams on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/music.youtube.com\/\">YouTube Music<\/a><\/strong> than <strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong>\u2019s entire catalog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Smith was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to repay $8.09 million for a scheme involving AI-generated songs and automated streams.","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech-innovation","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AI bot fraud case delivers sentencing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In March we covered the legal outcome of Michael Smith\u2019s fraudulent streaming escapades. 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