A man in the United States was sentenced to 18 months in prison and a $8 million fine for using AI to defraud music copyright income美国一男子因利用 AI 骗取音乐版权收入被判 18 个月监禁并罚没 800 万美元

IT House reported on October 8 that the US Department of Justice issued an announcement on the 6th of this month, saying that Michael Smith, a man from North Carolina, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment and a fine of 8 million US dollars (IT House note: the current exchange rate is about 53.7 million yuan) for using AI to defraud music copyright income. Illegal income. Michael Smith used artificial intelligence to generate hundreds of thousands of songs from 2017 to 2024. Since then, tens of thousands of fake accounts created with fake mailboxes and illegally obtained debit cards have been used to online these songs on streaming platforms, and then the huge robot account matrix has been used to fraudulently play them to obtain illegal income. Source: Pexels Copyright is paid proportionally from the funding pool to songwriters and singers. As a result, streaming fraud shifts the earnings of songwriters and singers who originally belonged to real users playing songs legally into the hands of those who use automation technology to forge the illusion of legal playback.