An AI startup has been accused of fraudulently boosting the listenership of AI-generated music with the use of streaming bots posing as human listeners. As the Financial Times reports, Spotify has ...

Spotify is being accused of allowing bots to fraudulently stream songs by superstar Drake. Rapper RBX filed a federal class action lawsuit against the streaming platform Sunday, alleging they’ve ...

In addition to fake music, artificial intelligence has created a big new problem for Spotify: fake listeners. It's an infinite loop of "artificial streaming." Reading time 3 minutes Spotify recently ...

A man in Denmark was sentenced to 18 months in prison today for using fake accounts to trick music streaming services into paying him 2 million Danish kroner ($290,000) in royalties. The unusual case ...

Spotify faces a fresh legal challenge. The lawsuit claims the platform lets fake streams pump up artist numbers. It points to Drake's 37 billion plays as a prime example. Rolling Stone first broke the ...

RBX sued Spotify, alleging the company ignored billions of bot-generated streams that boosted stars like Drake while cutting earnings for real artists. RBX, the Long Beach rap veteran who debuted on ...

If you ask Drake, Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us isn't as popular as it seems. The Canadian rapper has filed a petition in New York's Supreme Court, accusing Universal Music Group of using bots and ...

If a song is created by artificial intelligence and listened to by a bot, was it even heard at all? It’s a problem music-streaming companies now face as generative AI is rapidly making it easier for ...