A North Carolina man is accused of a $10 million fraud scheme using artificial intelligence to create fake music.

Michael Smith, 52, allegedly created hundreds of thousands of fake songs by nonexistent bands and uploaded them to streaming services. He then used bots to play these songs repeatedly, mimicking real listeners.
Smith started by uploading his own music, but then moved on to using AI to create tracks en masse. He generated plausible names for songs and artists to avoid detection. By 2019, Smith was earning about $110,000 a month in royalties.

Prosecutors say the scheme ran from 2017 to 2024. Smith faces charges of wire fraud and money laundering. He faces up to 20 years in prison.

A horse drawn fire-engine, New York, 1911

Hypnotizing epoxy time-lapse.

Docked 🚤

Walruses have a wide head, small eyes, and are easily recognized by their two protruding tusks. The tusks are present in both males and females.

A group photo of Russian soldiers, WWI, 1916 (Colourised)

A man who survived both atomic blasts

Just together they decided to take away the camera.

A street in Fez, Morocco, c. 1930

🎥 Use of body-worn cameras during a soccer match

Beluga whales are quite talkative.

That's why since ancient times sailors call them "sea canaries".

Senate pages having a snowball fight outside the Capitol building in Washington DC, 1920s

For sports fans it is considered strange to change the team they support. But for athletes and coaches, changing teams is a very common phenomenon

When the male ruby hummingbird turns toward the sun, its dark plumage flashes brightly.

Two women in folk dress in Hamburg, Germany, c. 1890s (photochrome)

AI has revealed what Jack Dawson would have looked like if he hadn't died in the Titanic sinking

A great end to a workday.

A main street in a Chinese city, c. 1880s-1890s.

Seealpsee is a lake in the Appenzell Alps in the municipality of Schwende, Switzerland.

Scientists are still debating why otters juggle pebbles.

English physicist and chemist Robert Boyle (1627-1691).
Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method. He is best known for Boyle's law, which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas, if the temperature is kept constant within a closed system.