Game That Tune

Music platforms pay artists royalties based on the number of times their songs are streamed. Is there a way to artificially turn up the volume on that volume? Michael Smith decided to find out. He used AI to create a ton of songs by fake bands and then set up a bunch of bots to stream them over and over. The scheme worked. Maybe a little too well. I wonder if any of the AI songs sound anything like Jailhouse Rock. FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist.