NC music streaming fraud reveals new challenges with art and AI [Video]

As the use of AI grows, creators may be concerned that streaming fraud would be something we could see more often.

“It’s really like putting on a concert or producing a concert where nobody shows up, but you’re still getting the money from the ticket sales,” she said. “So that’s a really good way to think about it.”

Roberts explained, since platforms like Spotify pay artists depending on the number of plays, streaming fraud exposes some of these new challenges of art and artificial intelligence.

“This had been going on for years, since as early as 2017,” she explained. “And what they did was, they got together and they created thousands of bots, and these bots are just programs that are designed to just run in the background and play these, you know, pieces of music.”

Although streaming companies have …