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[Effort post] Someone Uses AI to Scam Frank Ocean Fans Out of 15k+

Context

The story begins on http://leaked.cx, an unreleased music forum/board/marketplace. Basically if you don't know, artists have lots of music they don't release for whatever reason (unfinished, they just don't like it, get lazy, etc). At the same time, songs are increasingly worked on my more and more people (producers, mixing assistants, contributors), evidently, with worse and worse IT security. Through some combination of credential stuffing, sim swapping, or basic social engineering, these files end up in the hands of "leakers" (also known as "sellers") :marsey4chan:.

Once the sellers have the files, they typically either "vault" them (keep them to themselves) or sell them to buyers for money (typically bitcoin). There are typically two methods of selling:

1. Private selling - The leaker sells a song to one buyer away from public view. This is "supposed" to only happen one time, since the more people have a song, the less value it is. But the only method of enforcement is some dumbass "honor among thieves" type honor code, so in reality, pretty much every sale happens at least two or three times, to two or three different people :marseyclueless:. This is called "double-selling" or "triple-selling."

2. Groupbuys - The leaker approaches a groomercord community for an artist, and lets them set up a crowdfund of sorts. Fans each pitch in 5-10 dollars, raise a few thousand, and send it to the leaker. The leaker then released the song files publicly.

FrankHub is a groomercord server that hosts Frank Ocean related leaked song discussion and group buys.

What happened

An incredibly based user named MourningAssassin (MA) :marseygigachad: utilized AI to produce 10 fake AI tracks using the vocals of Frank Ocean. He then posted one of these tracks to http://leaked.cx and got two offers, netting 6k in Bitcoin. A third user then contacted him, offering to sell a real Frank Ocean track with its respective music video. MA buys it (using money from one of the other buyers too, lol) to use later to boost his credibility. MA then turns around and sells the two buyers the track he just bought, "Changes," for more than he bought it (netting another few thousand). MA also triple-sells another AI track to three people (netting several more thousand).

MA then goes to the FrankOcean leaked songs groomercord, and offers to leak lots of Frank Ocean's music in a groupbuy. The groomercord happily accepts, and begins fundraising. But certain users notice that the vocals of the tracks MA is advertising in snippets and leaking parts of to promote the buy sound a little off. After some back and forth about whether or not the tracks are real, they make contact with all the previous buyers, find out he triple sold basically everything, and was almost certainly faking it. The group buy is cancelled.

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A post-mortem announcement on the Frank Ocean groomercord summarizes the situation, https://leaked.cx/threads/how-mourningassassin-makes-a-living-off-of-selling-ai-songs.117788/. There is plenty and plenty of seethe in the Frank Ocean groomercord as well, these threads are just a taste. The people who bought the songs privately at first have been rather quiet, but as I'm sure you can imagine, are probably losing their shit :marseyseethe:.

While MA was eventually caught, he made roughly 15k off of these fricking r-slurs in a span of 3 months :marseymerchant:, for what appears to be a relatively small capital investment of a few hundred dollars to pay someone to make these fake tracks.

What happens now

This is still developing but I highly encourage everyone reading this to try their hand at doing the same thing MA did. I know I will be. MA has promised to give somewhere between 1/2 to 1/3 of the money he made back to the people he scammed, but no one is sure if he will actually do it. He's also sent a few messages to the moderators of FrankHub explaining that he did it to "send a message" :marseysociety2: and spread awareness about AI fakes. Personally, I hope he keeps all of the money.

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If only there was some technology that could prevent double selling data on the internet

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Are you implying something?

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Im implying !bitcoin100 no wait !slots100

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crypto doesn't solve this, if it did it would actually be useful lol

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Solving double spending is why Bitcoin is Bitcoin. Say what you want about how it's a ponzi or burns down the rainforests (both true) it was created specifically to solve this. You can go buy a song as an nft right now and it's impossible for the seller to sell it again.

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Actually they could just make another nft of it and sell that, if they had the original recording

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Why not? Just make another nft with the same song and sell it again.

How are you crypto people so r-slurred?

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