Spotify could face liability for failing to police fake streams

Puck reports that a prosecutor in a high-profile bot-farming case suggested Spotify could be on the hook for not policing fake streams. The article describes Michael Smith using AI-generated songs and bots operating through as many as 10,000 accounts; it says his catalogue logged 80.9 million YouTube Music streams in April 2023. Puck also asks what happens when AI agents start compiling playlists or watching Netflix on their own.