Michael Smith, a 54-year-old North Carolina man whom federal prosecutors accused of defrauding music-streaming services with AI-generated songs, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit ...

Yesterday, the FBI raided the North Carolina home of a musician named Michael Smith and arrested Smith. Now, federal authorities are charging Smith with money laundering, wire fraud, and conspiracy to ...

Federal investigators have indicted a North Carolina man over a scheme in which he allegedly used bot accounts and hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs to earn more than $10 million in royalty ...