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FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am just impressed by the idea and execution. Just wow. Too bad he took it too far.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Definitely an abuse of the system, but I'm struggling to see where criminal law says you can't make a bunch of fake accounts to listen to garbage music.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Fraud is pretty broad and covers most things that deliberately misrepresent reality to take money from someone else.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yet advertising and billionaires exist. It's not what you do, it's what clique you're part of.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Dont hurt the normies mate!

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