{"id":14122,"date":"2024-09-07T18:17:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T18:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyai.com\/?p=14122"},"modified":"2024-09-08T09:57:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T09:57:18","slug":"fbi-busts-10-million-ai-music-streaming-scam-run-by-a-north-carolina-musician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyai.com\/it\/2024\/09\/fbi-busts-10-million-ai-music-streaming-scam-run-by-a-north-carolina-musician\/","title":{"rendered":"L'FBI arresta una truffa di $10 milioni di streaming di musica AI gestita da un \"musicista\" della Carolina del Nord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>I procuratori federali hanno accusato un \"musicista\" della Carolina del Nord di aver orchestrato un elaborato schema di frode da $10 milioni utilizzando musica generata dall'intelligenza artificiale.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michael Smith, 52 anni, \u00e8 stato arrestato mercoled\u00ec con l'accusa di frode telematica, cospirazione per frode telematica e cospirazione per riciclaggio di denaro.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">L'accusa sostiene che Smith abbia utilizzato la tecnologia AI per creare centinaia di migliaia di canzoni false di gruppi musicali inesistenti, per poi impiegare dei bot per trasmettere questi brani milioni di volte su piattaforme popolari come Spotify, Apple Music e Amazon Music.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"Attraverso il suo sfacciato schema di frode, Smith ha rubato milioni di diritti d'autore che avrebbero dovuto essere pagati a musicisti, autori di canzoni e altri detentori di diritti le cui canzoni sono state trasmesse legittimamente in streaming\". <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bpr.org\/2024-09-06\/musician-streaming-fraud-doj-spotify-apple-amazon-youtube-music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">detto <span class=\"noTranslate\" data-no-translation=\"\"><span class=\"noTranslate\" data-no-translation=\"\"><span class=\"noTranslate\" data-no-translation=\"\"><span class=\"noTranslate\" data-no-translation=\"\">US<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> Avvocato<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Damian Williams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Secondo l'atto di accusa (un documento legale formale che \u00e8 stato reso pubblico dopo essere stato inizialmente tenuto riservato), l'operazione di Smith \u00e8 durata sette anni. Ha creato migliaia di falsi account di streaming utilizzando indirizzi e-mail acquistati.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Smith avrebbe persino sviluppato un software per riprodurre a ripetizione la sua musica generata dall'intelligenza artificiale da numerosi computer, imitando singoli ascoltatori di luoghi diversi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Per evitare di essere individuato, avrebbe distribuito la falsa attivit\u00e0 di streaming su una serie di canzoni false, generando accuratamente nomi unici per gli artisti e i brani creati dall'intelligenza artificiale.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alcuni di questi moniker stravaganti e assurdi includevano gruppi come \"Callous Post\" e \"Calorie Screams\", con titoli di canzoni come \"Zygotic Washstands\" e \"Zymotechnical\". Mi chiedo quale sia il prompt che ha usato per generarli.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lo schema si \u00e8 rivelato eccezionalmente redditizio. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In un'e-mail inviata all'inizio dell'anno, Smith si \u00e8 vantato di aver raggiunto 4 miliardi di stream e $12 milioni di royalties dal 2019. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I procuratori sostengono che a giugno 2019 Smith guadagnava circa $110.000 al mese, dividendone una parte con dei co-cospiratori senza nome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dal punto di vista dell'intelligenza artificiale, non \u00e8 chiaro come queste canzoni siano state generate con l'intelligenza artificiale nel 2019, dato che all'epoca non c'erano molti strumenti di alta qualit\u00e0 come oggi. Oggi, strumenti come <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyai.com\/it\/2024\/04\/udio-launches-and-may-be-the-best-ai-music-generator-yet\/\">Udio<\/a>, Suno, ecc. probabilmente renderebbe ancora pi\u00f9 facile l'esecuzione di una simile truffa.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dobbiamo sottolineare che gli schemi di botting hanno afflitto le piattaforme di streaming per decenni, con artisti, etichette e truffatori che tentano di aggirare il sistema.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spotify, Apple Music e altre piattaforme sono gi\u00e0 da tempo\u00a0<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">lotta ai falsi flussi, utilizzando l'intelligenza artificiale per analizzare e bloccare l'attivit\u00e0 dei bot. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">La musica generata dall'intelligenza artificiale \u00e8 molto diffusa su Spotify e si potrebbe pensare che la piattaforma inizi a prestare maggiore attenzione ai suoi<\/span>\u00a0origini e le intenzioni ora.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ci\u00f2 che rende il caso di Smith degno di nota, tuttavia, \u00e8 la combinazione di botting su larga scala e contenuti generati dall'intelligenza artificiale.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00c8 stata una mossa intelligente. Ma il lungo braccio della legge alla fine ci ha raggiunto.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>L'industria della musica e quella dell'intelligenza artificiale sono ai ferri corti<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>L'intelligenza artificiale e le industrie creative si sono mescolate come l'olio e l'acqua. Anche se non si mescolano naturalmente, la loro combinazione ha dato vita a un intruglio volatile pieno di potenzialit\u00e0 e rischi.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Solo pochi mesi fa, le tre maggiori etichette discografiche del mondo <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyai.com\/it\/2024\/06\/worlds-biggest-music-labels-shock-the-ai-industry-with-landmark-lawsuit\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hanno intentato cause federali<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> contro le piattaforme text-to-audio Suno e Udio, con l'accusa di \"violazione di massa di registrazioni sonore protette da copyright\".<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), che rappresenta Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment e Warner Records, sostiene che vi siano prove inconfutabili che Suno e Udio abbiano utilizzato musica protetta da copyright senza autorizzazione per addestrare i loro modelli di intelligenza artificiale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allo stesso modo, nell'aprile 2024, oltre <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyai.com\/it\/2024\/04\/200-artists-warn-about-generative-meddling-in-music\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">200 artisti di spicco<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, tra cui Billie Eilish, Nicki Minaj e Jon Bon Jovi, hanno giurato di combattere la musica AI.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">L'integrazione dell'intelligenza artificiale nella musica non \u00e8 vista universalmente come una minaccia. Alcuni la considerano una forza democratizzante, che consente ai produttori di sperimentare formati diversi senza la manipolazione umana necessaria nei processi tradizionali di firma dei dischi. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Come si sentiranno i musicisti che lottano per monetizzare il loro lavoro, spesso generosamente talentuoso, sulle piattaforme di streaming?<\/p>\n<p>L'uso dell'intelligenza artificiale per manipolare gli algoritmi di piattaforme spesso criticate per aver sottopagato gli artisti potrebbe sembrare un crimine senza vittime. Tuttavia, la manipolazione disonesta dei numeri dello streaming ha conseguenze profonde.<\/p>\n<p>Sebbene molti artisti si sentano sfruttati dalle piattaforme di streaming, pratiche fraudolente come quelle denunciate nel caso Smith danneggiano probabilmente l'intero ecosistema musicale.<\/p>\n<p>Possono diluire i flussi legittimi, alterare gli algoritmi di scoperta, minare la fiducia e probabilmente rendere pi\u00f9 difficile il successo degli artisti onesti.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c8 un'altra frontiera su cui artisti e piattaforme dovranno lottare per garantire un ecosistema equo e trasparente. Gli artisti rischiano di rimanere indietro.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I procuratori federali hanno accusato un \"musicista\" della Carolina del Nord di aver orchestrato un elaborato schema di frode da $10 milioni utilizzando musica generata dall'intelligenza artificiale. Michael Smith, 52 anni, \u00e8 stato arrestato mercoled\u00ec con l'accusa di frode telematica, cospirazione per frode telematica e cospirazione per riciclaggio di denaro.  I pubblici ministeri sostengono che Smith abbia utilizzato la tecnologia AI per creare centinaia di migliaia di canzoni false di gruppi musicali inesistenti, impiegando poi dei bot per trasmettere questi brani milioni di volte su piattaforme popolari come Spotify, Apple Music e Amazon Music. Attraverso il suo sfacciato schema di frode, Smith ha rubato milioni di diritti d'autore che avrebbero dovuto essere pagati a musicisti, autori di canzoni e altri detentori di diritti le cui canzoni sono state riprodotte in streaming\".<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[140],"class_list":["post-14122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethics","tag-ai-music"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FBI busts $10 million AI music streaming scam run by a North Carolina &#039;musician&#039; | DailyAI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyai.com\/it\/2024\/09\/fbi-busts-10-million-ai-music-streaming-scam-run-by-a-north-carolina-musician\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"it_IT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FBI busts $10 million AI music streaming scam run by a North Carolina &#039;musician&#039; | DailyAI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Federal prosecutors have charged a North Carolina &#8216;musician&#8217; with orchestrating an elaborate $10 million fraud scheme using AI-generated music. 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