An AI startup has been accused of fraudulently boosting the listenership of AI-generated music with the use of streaming bots posing as human listeners. As the Financial Times reports, Spotify has ...

Drake is not named as a defendant in the suit, which accuses Spotify of ignoring bots to artificially inflate the size of the ...

Led by rapper RBX, the federal complaint alleges that mass streaming fraud is depriving honest artists of their fair share of ...

According to Spotify founder Daniel Ek, the value of a company is “the sum of the problems you solve.” The problem of bot farms playing the same tracks over and over to manipulate streaming data may ...

If a song is created by artificial intelligence and listened to by a bot, was it even heard at all? It’s a problem music-streaming companies now face as generative AI is rapidly making it easier for ...

A North Carolina man was charged by federal authorities with music streaming fraud. The U.S. Department of Justice alleges Michael Smith of Cornelius created thousands of fake accounts, or Bot ...

On Feb. 9, the electronic artist Benn Jordan, who performs under the alias the Flashbulb, was attempting to reference one of his songs during a recording session but couldn’t access his music on ...

A new class action lawsuit in the United States is accusing Spotify of enabling large-scale streaming fraud on its platform, ...

A man in Denmark was sentenced to 18 months in prison today for using fake accounts to trick music streaming services into paying him 2 million Danish kroner ($290,000) in royalties. The unusual case ...

Federal investigators have indicted a North Carolina man over a scheme in which he allegedly used bot accounts and hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs to earn more than $10 million in royalty ...