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The Price of Music: streaming fraud – how does it work and who’s doing it?

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This week, the podcast pivots to the popular TRUE CRIME format in order to woo a giant mainstream audience. OK, not quite – but sort-of. Stu and Joe have spoken a lot recently on the show about how AI-generated music accounts for 50% of music uploaded to streaming platforms – and how the reason for it, it seems, is for it to be used for fraud. So in this episode they’re having a good old root around music streaming fraud: how it works, who is doing it, why so much AI music is needed – and how much money can be made.

First report: ‘The next major music platform should give people something to do with the music’: Spotify’s former Head of Innovation on his plans to launch an interactive music service, and whether AI features will help or hinder streaming — techradar.com, 9d