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AI Bots Overwhelm Ticket Sales for Raye's Royal Albert Hall Concert
Raye's team vetted 1.8 million registrations by hand to find the actual fans.
The facts
British singer Raye's ticket registration for her Royal Albert Hall concert was overwhelmed by AI bots used by scalpers, generating hundreds of thousands of fake sign-ups. This forced her team to manually vet 1.8 million registrations to ensure genuine fans could access tickets at fair prices.