He didn’t generate the music himself, and likely worked with others on setting up the bots (the article mentions co-conspirators). On the song generation:

> This led Smith to pivot to AI-generated music in 2018 when he partnered with an as-yet-unnamed AI music company CEO and a music promoter to create a large library of computer-generated songs. The district attorney announcement did not specify precisely what method Smith used to generate the songs.

I wonder what company he used and whether they can be liable too.