Deepfake case study · Audio
Music Industry, legitimate artists, labels, and…
AI song generators are used to flood platforms with millions of fake songs, streaming each one a few thousand times to generate royalties. Michael Smith…
- Incident date
- May 2025
- Target
- Music Industry, legitimate artists, labels, and publishers
Updated May 6, 2026 · 1 min read
AI song generators are used to flood platforms with millions of fake songs, streaming each one a few thousand times to generate royalties. Michael Smith allegedly extracted over US$10 million by uploading hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs and using bots.