FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist
FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist
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FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist
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I don’t see the crime. Man games system. Man makes money. No crime.
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That's a very... capitalist way of thinking.
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Is it? Taking money from big corporations, using their own machine? Sounds like you don’t know much about capitalism.
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the only good form of capitalism is the type that confuses idiots
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It does help set a good precedent. When companies try to do the same thing, further hurting smaller artists, we can point to this case
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The crime isn't in publishing AI music. The crime was that he setup fake listeners streaming his songs so he could get royalties and inflate popularity. Initially he published his own songs, but to scale up and avoid detection he started creating music at scale - That's where AI Comes in.
This is basically the same way you get on the NYT bestseller list - buy your own books.
The times doesn't pay you royalties for your book sales, and it doesn't cost you anything. They also detect if someone is messing with the system and display a dagger symbol if you are found to inflate your numbers.
Isn't this basically how Taylor Swift got her start .... her millionaire father just buying thousands of her debut album at the beginning.