Musician Raye reveals the scale of reseller AI bots buying up concert tickets
The artist Raye is sharing her experience with resellers and AI bots after trying to sell tickets to her fans for a special show.
British singer-songwriter Raye was set to perform an intimate one-night concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London next week. The venue can accommodate 5,000 attendees, but the online sign-up process was overwhelmed by resellers and AI bots, leading to the creation of hundreds of thousands of fake registrations for the event. Raye, who expected thousands of genuine sign-ups, acknowledged that this was a new scale of bot activity she had never encountered before.
In response, she has decided to manually review the sign-up list and send a pre-sale link and code only to individuals she believes are real fans. Raye expressed her concern that this issue highlights the need for a long-term solution to the reselling problem, which has plagued ticketing for concerts, tours, and sporting events.
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