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AI Music Fraudster Forced To Face The Music With 18-Month Sentence

A North Carolina musician has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for orchestrating an automated streaming fraud scheme that siphoned over $10 million in royalty payouts using artificial intelligence and bot farms.

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