US Man Earns $10 Million from Generated Music, Faces Up to 60 Years in Prison

A young man from the USA earned $10 million from generated music and now faces up to 60 years in prison. Since at least 2017, he has been creating tracks of fictional bands using neural networks and uploading them to Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube Music, manipulating the listens with bots. A local AI startup assisted him, and in particularly successful months, he earned over $100,000. However, at some point, the streaming services became suspicious and contacted the FBI.