Scammers used AI-generated Frank Ocean songs to steal thousands of dollars

More AI-generated music mimicking a famous artist has made the rounds -- while making lots of money for the scammer passing it off as genuine. A collection of fake Frank Ocean songs sold for a reported $13,000 CAD ($9,722 in US dollars) last month on a music-leaking forum devoted to the Grammy-winning singer, according to Vice. If the story sounds familiar, it's essentially a recycling of last month's AI Drake / The Weeknd fiasco. It's also caused headaches for Spotify, which recently pulled not just Fake Drake but tens of thousands of other AI-generated tracks after receiving complaints from Universal Music. The scammer, who used the handle mourningassasin, told Vice they hired someone to make "around nine" Ocean songs using "very high-quality vocal snippets" of the Thinkin Bout You singer's voice.