First US case of AI-driven music streaming royalty fraud ends in guilty plea

A Cornelius man pleaded guilty Thursday to running a music streaming fraud scheme that used artificial intelligence and bot ...

NC man used AI to defraud music streaming sites billions of times. Now he owes $8M

The case involving a Charlotte-area man is the country's first criminal case over manipulating music streaming platforms through AI.
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To catch a bot: Social media’s growing problem with AI

In July last year, an attempted assassin tried to take the life of President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania. Within 48 hours, conspiracy theories ran rampant on social media. One of them ...
Forbes

How Higher Education Became The Target Of Bots, Fake Accounts And Online Fraud

Higher education is in a state of drastic transition. Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, colleges and universities have had to rapidly adapt to the challenges posed by the virus, moving to ...
AOL

A MAGA bot network on X is divided over the Trump-Epstein backlash

A previously unreported network of hundreds of accounts on X is using artificial intelligence to automatically reply to conservatives with positive messages about people in the Trump administration, ...
Digital Journal

Bot-like accounts on X fuel US political conspiracies, watchdog says

Bot-like accounts remain entrenched on X, previously known as Twitter, researchers say. - Copyright GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP JUSTIN SULLIVAN Bot-like accounts ...
ZDNet

ChatGPT-assisted bots are spreading on social media

For many users, scrolling through social media feeds and notifications is like wading in a cesspool of spam content. A new study identified 1,140 AI-assisted bots that were spreading misinformation on ...