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Oct 7, 2026

Man sentenced to 18 months for $8 million AI music streaming fraud

Michael Smith received an 18-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to using bot accounts to stream AI-generated music billions of times, fraudulently earning up to $8 million in royalties.

Oct 7, 2026·2 sources
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  • ▪The case against Michael Smith was the Justice Department's first criminal prosecution involving fraud through artificial intelligence-assisted music streaming
  • ▪In a 2017 email, Michael Smith calculated that streaming his songs 661,440 times daily could generate $3,307.20 in daily royalties and up to $1.2 million annually
  • ▪Michael Smith's 18-month prison sentence for streaming fraud is too lenient

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