How AI-Generated Music Became A $4 Billion Fraud Machine (Forbes, 5/5)

[AZJonnie]

4. I understand your point, but on the flipside if 85% of AI generated tracks

are only streamed by AI bots, then it also means few people are interested in them, which I think is better than if 85% WERE streams from real people and 15% from bots. Because that would mean Spotify would hate these songs being there less, and it would directly take money from artists pockets because listeners can only play 1 song at a time. Every time it's an AI track, that is bad for artists, like, directly.

Also, every 'real' listener provides the slop companies with royalties *without* their having to pay for a membership, and w/o the costs associated with running bots, which may be pretty cheap but it's not free.

To be clear nothing about this is "good" by any means, but actually the closer that ratio is to 100%, the better, IMHO. And there's a simple fix (better fraud detection), and the streaming companies will WANT to fight this fraud as it's a big, obvious ripoff for them when it's just bots streaming fake AI music. If they do nothing they'll end up having to raise rates and/or cut royalties, which could hurt their business if artists leave or people cancel.