Deepfake case study · Audio
Legitimate artists and Deezer deepfake (Jun 2025)
Fraudulent streams of AI-generated music on Deezer, inflated by bots to collect royalty payments. Up to 70% of AI-generated music streams are fraudulent, with AI music accounting for 0.5% of streams. A specific case…
- Incident date
- Jun 2025
- Target
- Legitimate artists and Deezer
Updated May 6, 2026 · 1 min read
Fraudulent streams of AI-generated music on Deezer, inflated by bots to collect royalty payments. Up to 70% of AI-generated music streams are fraudulent, with AI music accounting for 0.5% of streams. A specific case involves Michael Smith generating hundreds of thousands of AI songs and streaming them billions of times, obtaining $10 million in royalties.