{"id":197951,"date":"2026-03-20T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/man-illegally-uses-ai-to-create-songs-earn-over-8m-in-royalties\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T07:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T11:50:22","slug":"man-illegally-uses-ai-to-create-songs-earn-over-8m-in-royalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/man-illegally-uses-ai-to-create-songs-earn-over-8m-in-royalties\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Illegally Uses AI To Create Songs, Earn Over $8M In Royalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brobible.com\/culture\/article\/ai-create-songs-inflate-streaming-earn-royalties\/\">Man Illegally Uses AI To Create Songs, Earn Over $8M In Royalties<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brobible.com\/culture\/article\/ai-create-songs-inflate-streaming-earn-royalties\/\">https:\/\/brobible.com\/culture\/article\/ai-create-songs-inflate-streaming-earn-royalties\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-20 15:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"brobible.com\">brobible.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Expert concerns about the misuse of advanced AI have materialized in the first-ever AI-streaming fraud case in the United States.<\/li>\n<li>Michael Smith allegedly used AI to produce hundreds of thousands of songs and employed automated bots to stream these billions of times, illegally earning over $8 million in royalties.<\/li>\n<li>Smith dispersed automated streams across thousands of tracks to avoid suspicion and utilized AI music technology, random names for songs and artists to disguise the AI origin.<\/li>\n<li>Authorities uncovered Smith&#8217;s scheme, led to his prosecution for wire fraud conspiracy, wire fraud, and money laundering conspiracy.<\/li>\n<li>In November 2024, Michael Smith pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and agreed to pay back $8,091,843.64 in forfeiture, with a potential prison sentence of up to five years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man Illegally Uses AI To Create Songs, Earn Over $8M In Royalties https:\/\/brobible.com\/culture\/article\/ai-create-songs-inflate-streaming-earn-royalties\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/brobible.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/artificial-intelligence-songs.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197953,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197951\/revisions\/197953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}