On: Man arrested for creating fake AI music and making $10M by listening with bots

[bradley13]

Just the reading the summary: where's the fraud? He produced songs. Those songs were streamed. I really want to know specifically which ToC he violated.

[TillE → bradley13]

The linked DOJ press release lays it out pretty clearly, in detail.

It's straightforward fraud, not really different from sending fake invoices to random companies.

[wmf → bradley13]

They weren't listened to by people.

[2four2 → bradley13]

Defraud the general population: business as usual. Defraud a big company: 1000 years dungeon.