The chatter around streaming bots grew noticeably louder in August 2025, when a prison phone call between Young Thug and an unidentified associate leaked online. During the conversation, the Young ...

Federal authorities hit a North Carolina man with charges arising from allegations that he fraudulently earned streaming royalties through a scheme involving bots and AI-generated songs. The man, ...

Still, there is no denying streaming fraud is a persistent issue across the music industry, often implemented by artists and/or their representatives, who use bots and streaming farms to artificially ...

What in the world is going on right now. Kendrick Lamar is now facing allegations that he utilized illegitimate streaming methods to achieve the success of his “Not Like Us” Drake diss. An underage ...

Unveiling the AI music scandal: Discover how an artist used artificial intelligence and bots to manipulate streaming numbers and commit fraud in the music industry. An artificial intelligence (AI) ...

A North Carolina man is facing fraud charges after allegedly uploading hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs to streaming services and using bots to play them billions of times. Michael Smith is ...

Federal prosecutors today charged a North Carolina musician who’d taken in around $10 million in royalties from his AI-generated songs that were streamed by the bots he deployed. Michael Smith, a ...

A federal lawsuit filed Sunday in California federal court accuses Spotify of failing to prevent streaming fraud, including by allowing “billions” of bot-generated streams that allegedly boosted ...