Beato

Ear­li­er this month, a North Automobile­oli­na man was charged with gen­er­at­ing songs utilizing an arti­fi­cial-intel­li­gence sys­tem and con­fig­ur­ing bots to stream them auto­mat­i­cal­ly, thus rack­ing up some $10 mil­lion in ille­gal roy­al­ties. Although that quantity little question star­tles many people, on this age when legit­i­mate musi­cians pub­licly lament the pit­tance they earn by way of…