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US man pleads guilty to defrauding music streamers out of millions using AI (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 2 hours ago by Valnao@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] db2@lemmy.world 22 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The case against Smith highlights a growing problem for the music industry that had largely recovered from the Napster music piracy era of the early 2000s only to be faced with an AI-based threat to revenue from music streaming platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify and YouTube Music.

This is supposed to make me feel sympathetic to the multi billion dollar corporations? Fuck all the way off with that shit.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 13 points 1 hour ago

"Due to lower than expected album sales, James Hetfield has had to settle for a solid gold swimming pool instead of the solid platinum pool he really wanted."

[–] schwim@piefed.zip 11 points 1 hour ago

The ONLY reason the industry cares is because of the fake streamers part of this. They not only welcome ai music, platforms like Spotify are creating ai music of their own so they can cut out the pittance they pay the artists.

This is not a goodguys-win story.

[–] ji88aja88a@lemmy.world 1 points 15 minutes ago

when do the ai owners start paying the damages on stealing content to power the models? it's kinda the same..

[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I feel like I'm missing something in this article. If he was taking the music but also faking the play counts with bots, how were other artists missing out?

[–] faltryka@lemmy.world 13 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The streaming service pays them out of a pool proportionally. So he basically diluted the distribution from that pool, resulting in lower payments to everyone else.

[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 29 minutes ago

That would be the missing bit! Cheers

[–] org@lemmy.org 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Got greedy

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 2 points 46 minutes ago

While not being rich enough to have fuck you money and get away with it.

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago

While I am not against AI as a tool, this person being a tool with AI generated slop remixes everywhere as a hustle is not approve.