Raye reveals the scale of AI bots buying up concert tickets
Singer Raye reported that AI bots accounted for the vast majority of 1.8 million ticket sign-ups for her upcoming intimate concert. To combat this, her team is manually vetting registrations to ensure tickets reach genuine fans at face value.
Why it matters
This incident highlights the growing threat of AI-driven scalping in the live entertainment industry, forcing artists to adopt labor-intensive manual verification processes.
Raye is a British singer-songwriter who planned on holding an intimate one-night concert for her fans next week.The event's venue has capacity for 5,000 attendees. There were 1.8 million sign-ups for tickets. It sounds like a good problem to have, right? Having that many fans? One problem. The vast majority of those sign-ups were AI bots, according to Raye, run by profit-seeking resellers hoping to make money off her fans."This Symphony May Contain Hope" is a planned one-night live concert by Raye at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Oct. 23. It appears the singer was expecting to receive thousands of sign-ups and then send out a pre-sale link for interested parties, with tickets available on a first-come, first-served basis.
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