{"id":19015,"date":"2025-06-03T14:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T12:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/03\/ai-bot-farms-and-innocent-indie-victims-how-music-streaming-became-a-hotbed-of-fraud-and-fakery\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T14:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T12:37:15","slug":"ai-bot-farms-and-innocent-indie-victims-how-music-streaming-became-a-hotbed-of-fraud-and-fakery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/03\/ai-bot-farms-and-innocent-indie-victims-how-music-streaming-became-a-hotbed-of-fraud-and-fakery\/","title":{"rendered":"AI, bot farms and innocent indie victims: how music streaming became a hotbed of fraud and fakery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fraudsters use fake artists to juice royalties from streaming services \u2013 but real musicians are getting blamed. Might they be better off without Spotify et al?<\/p>\n<p>There is a battle gripping the music business today around the manipulation of streaming services \u2013 and innocent indie artists are the collateral damage.<\/p>\n<p>Fraudsters are flooding Spotify, Apple Music and the rest with AI-generated tracks, to try and hoover up the royalties generated by people listening to them. These tracks are cheap, quick and easy to make, with Deezer estimating in April that over <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom-deezer.com\/2025\/04\/deezer-reveals-18-of-all-new-music-uploaded-to-streaming-is-fully-ai-generated\/\">20,000 fully AI-created tracks<\/a> \u2013 that\u2019s 18% of new tracks \u2013 were being ingested into its platform daily, almost double the number in January. The fraudsters often then use bots, AI or humans to endlessly listen to these fake songs and generate revenue, while others are exploiting upload services to get fake songs put on real artists\u2019 pages and siphon off royalties that way.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2025\/jun\/03\/ai-bot-farms-and-innocent-indie-victims-how-music-streaming-became-a-hotbed-of-and-fakery\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b2d5fbcf7fc7bfc9af37874a5436ca003c57de72\/147_0_1713_1370\/master\/1713.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=54e150eccb44686a8bfe4f13d3988d39\" title=\"AI, bot farms and innocent indie victims: how music streaming became a hotbed of fraud and fakery\" \/>Fraudsters use fake artists to juice royalties from streaming services \u2013 but real musicians are getting blamed. Might they be better off without Spotify et al?<br \/>\nThere is a battle gripping the music business today around the manipulation of streaming services \u2013 and innocent indie artists are the collateral damage.<br \/>\nFraudsters are flooding Spotify, Apple Music and the rest with AI-generated tracks, to try and hoover up the royalties generated by people listening to them. These tracks are cheap, quick and easy to make, with Deezer estimating in April that over 20,000 fully AI-created tracks \u2013 that\u2019s 18% of new tracks \u2013 were being ingested into its platform daily, almost double the number in January. The fraudsters often then use bots, AI or humans to endlessly listen to these fake songs and generate revenue, while others are exploiting upload services to get fake songs put on real artists\u2019 pages and siphon off royalties that way. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fraudsters use fake artists to juice royalties from streaming services \u2013 but real musicians are getting blamed. Might they be better off without Spotify et al? There is a battle gripping the music business today around the manipulation of streaming services \u2013 and innocent indie artists are the collateral damage. Fraudsters are flooding Spotify, Apple &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/03\/ai-bot-farms-and-innocent-indie-victims-how-music-streaming-became-a-hotbed-of-fraud-and-fakery\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI, bot farms and innocent indie victims: how music streaming became a hotbed of fraud and fakery<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19015"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}