Udio, an AI song generator website

Gettin' sued

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/24/suno-lawsuit-udio-sony-warner-umg-copyright/

Well this is shit

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/18/artificial-intelligence-song-immigrants-germany-top-50

The FBI arrests a North Carolina musician for streaming fraud, accusing him of collecting $10 million from hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songshttps://t.co/bW0q04g1d6

— Stereogum (@stereogum) September 5, 2024

Probably didn’t use Udio but it seemed an appropriate thread

just read a different article on this: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/fbi-busts-musicians-elaborate-ai-powered-10m-streaming-royalty-heist

I wonder if the random mostly non-musical tracks that would sometimes show up on my Discover Weekly years ago were from this guy or somebody else running a similar scheme, because I am assuming that with this many streams those tracks sometimes showed up on algorithmically generated playlists.

If the scam is ripping off Spotify and other streaming services, I gotta say I’m with this guy.

Yes, this seems like a victimless crime.

It's leeching on legit musicians:

'Spotify invests heavily in detecting, preventing, and removing the royalty impact of artificial streaming. Still, bad actors continue to attempt to steal money from the royalty pool that should be delivered to honest, hardworking artists.'

https://artists.spotify.com/en/blog/modernizing-our-royalty-system

What about lazy musicians?

Well, now that this arch criminal has been apprehended I expect my Spotify, et al. payments to increase. I will report back.

*puts on little snob bib* on some level, the victim is Art

Garfunkel