Deepfake case study · Audio
Streaming music services and artists deepfake (Mar 2026)
Michael Smith used AI to generate thousands of fake songs and streamed them billions of times via fake accounts to fraudulently obtain $8 million in royalty payments from music streaming services. The royalties were…
- Incident date
- Mar 2026
- Target
- Streaming music services and artists
Updated May 6, 2026 · 1 min read
Michael Smith used AI to generate thousands of fake songs and streamed them billions of times via fake accounts to fraudulently obtain $8 million in royalty payments from music streaming services. The royalties were diverted from real artists.