AI Bots Listening to Music & Committing Fraud

Daniel Parris / Stat Significant (Substack)Blog postopen.substack.com

“[P]latforms like Spotify and Deezer present a lucrative opportunity for scammers, who can easily game both sides of a music streaming marketplace. Someone can generate a song in minutes using a platform like Suno, then deploy AI bots to play the track repeatedly, creating a closed loop capable of generating millions of dollars in fraudulent royalties.”

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“The French streaming service Deezer currently flags 50% of its daily music uploads as AI-generated.”