A North Carolina musician who used as many as 10,000 bot accounts and hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs to siphon more than $8 million in streaming royalties has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison. https://twitter.com/InternetH0F/status/2108135320386703702?s=20 Michael Smith, 54, of Cornelius, N.C., was sentenced Tuesday (Oct. 6) by U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl in Manhattan federal court. In addition to the prison term, Smith will serve two years of supervised release and must...
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