I don’t see the crime. Man games system. Man makes money. No crime.
FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist
Submitted 1 year ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to technology@beehaw.org
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ravhall@discuss.online 1 year ago
sanpo@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
That’s a very… capitalist way of thinking.
ravhall@discuss.online 1 year ago
Is it? Taking money from big corporations, using their own machine? Sounds like you don’t know much about capitalism.
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
the only good form of capitalism is the type that confuses idiots
hades@lemm.ee 1 year ago
yes, calling it a heist specifically is extremely colourful in the wrong way
otter@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
It does help set a good precedent. When companies try to do the same thing, further hurting smaller artists, we can point to this case
ravhall@discuss.online 1 year ago
But corporations rarely get punished. So, I see a small fry taking advantage of a loophole to make money.
Granted, this person really should have quit before they got noticed. You get caught when you get greedy.
Michal@programming.dev 1 year ago
The crime isn’t in publishing AI music. The crime was that he setup fake listeners streaming his songs so he could get royalties and inflate popularity. Initially he published his own songs, but to scale up and avoid detection he started creating music at scale - That’s where AI Comes in.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 1 year ago
This is basically the same way you get on the NYT bestseller list - buy your own books.
Michal@programming.dev 1 year ago
The times doesn’t pay you royalties for your book sales, and it doesn’t cost you anything. They also detect if someone is messing with the system and display a dagger symbol if you are found to inflate your numbers.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Isn’t this basically how Taylor Swift got her start … her millionaire father just buying thousands of her debut album at the beginning.