SMITH’s hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs were streamed by his Bot Accounts billions of times.  For example, in April 2023, the entire catalogue of Taylor Swift received 9.3 million streams on YouTube Music from family plan streams, while in the same month, Smith’s Bot Accounts used family plans to fraudulently stream his AI-generated music 80.9 million times.  Smith’s Bot Account streams allowed him to fraudulently obtain more than $8 million in royalties from the Streaming Platforms.

Source: Southern District of New York | North Carolina Man Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison For Super Intelligence-Assisted Music Streaming Fraud | United States Department of Justice