The guy sounds like a great entrepreneur.

Finally a use case for AI.

A headline that wouldn't have been possible five years ago. Sick.

Still better than the theory that Spotify itself is making AI jazz and putting them on their oficial playlists to not pay artists.

Indicted on three counts involving money laundering and wire fraud

Oops. Picked on the big dogs by playing their own game.

Seriously though, probably more going on than what we read here.

I thought about experimenting with this (Guess it is a good thing I didn't). There are so many low effort "Lo Fi" types of streams and tracklists on Spotify and elsewhere. Who is to say my software generated garbage would be any worse than those?

There are also YouTubers who generate low effort music and ask their normal content subscribers to stream their shit on Spotify even if they aren't legitimately listening. So are those streams fraudulent as well?

It sounds like the thing he is getting popped for is the volume of automated streams.

Gonna miss having Zyme Bedewing on my Playlist.

I'm weirdly creeped out about how this article refers to him as "the man". Was this written by an AI?

Free him

I don't see how this is money laundering or wire fraud. I hope he gets off. Or the real best solution would to make it so the revenue just goes to the artists the AI is ripping off.

to head-scratchers like “Calorie Event,” “Calms Scorching,” and “Calypso Xored.”

As a fan of the Osees, those sound perfectly normal.