The AI bit of the story is a bit of alarmist spin. As alleged he simulated traffic to music streaming sites and received royalty for it, even though no one created the music being "played" and no one was really listening. It's quite fraudulent on the face of it.
AI allowed him to avoid detection for a long time. It allowed him to create thousands of songs so that the each one would only get moderate amounts of streams thus not raising suspicion.
Had he created songs by hand they would rack up millions/billions of botted streams but them not being international hits anyone had ever heard before would have made it obvious botting behaviour.
What about the "Musician" part? Seems like the headline should be "AI Musician aided by Computer Programmer in Complex Artificial Streaming Scheme" or similar
This would be a very dumb way of phrasing the situation, because the “AI musician” doesn’t have any understanding what the scheme is, it was entirely a plan of the human conspirators. It’s exactly as childish and stupid as saying “gun aided by human shooter in murder.”
