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A man used AI music to defraud the streaming business out of $10 million.

The fraud was less about all the fake bands releasing fake songs created in partnership with an unnamed exec at an AI music company, and more about the many, many accounts he made to stream all of his AI tunes on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music in order to get paid.

Impressively, he was ahead of the AI hype. His scheme started in 2017.

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