A Forbes analysis describes how mass generation of AI tracks, combined with fraudulent streams, turned into an industrial fraud model.
The core weakness is self-reporting. Platforms rely on what an uploader says about their own content; for fraudsters that means mislabelling is enough.
Why an honest artist should care. Projections put the royalty pool's loss at a quarter of creators' revenue by 2028 — around four billion euros. That money does not come from nowhere: it is taken from everyone else.