Every now and then more or less well-known artists have their discographies on digital service providers contaminated by foreign releases. Not all of them are by accident but were deliberately created for scam purposes:
How should we handle these?
See also past removal discussions in my collection. The latest one is still votable
Related threads:
The track that is āstill voteableā should at least go to a different artist. āKupla (AI fake)ā as it was not from the original artist, even if Spotify filed it there.
Though Iād be for deleting these, trouble is it was āreleasedā in some form. But spam is spam.
Thanks for making this thread @chaban!
From what Iāve seen, thereās two kinds of these scam releases. One is fake AI generated stuff thatās produced en masse to try and get as much streaming revenue as possible, such as this case from last month, and the other one is when a real artist releases a real song, as a fake collaboration with a bigger artist, also to get some attention / streaming revenue, such as this case where a real artist managed to include Skrillex as a collaborator on their song.
In the case of AI music, my personal view is that we shouldnāt even bother adding or maintaining that stuff in the database at all, but I know other editors have different views about the topic.
As for the second example, I ended up removing the Skrillex credit on that release, but like @IvanDobsky said, we could also create a āfakeā artist page for such credits.
Oh nice, glad to see a post about these! These are common in KPop(Search r/kpophelp for āhacked spotifyā and you find plenty of examples), and some times end up added to MB
as two examples. I never know the best way to handle these. Personally I would like to see them just deleted. Scams like this to take advantage of other artists shouldnāt be included IMO.
As I mentioned on Edit #121702727 - MusicBrainz, I am favour of leaving these, and separating them into a new artist that is clearly marked as āscamā.
Not because I want to give these releases oxygen/think they are worth keeping, but because it is useful to store that they are not legitimate. These releases rely on uncertainty, and knowledge is power.
So if any future K-pop fan thinks āwhat is this āWilchingā single by BADVILLAINā they can find it on MusicBrainz, see that it is fake, and not bother finding it.
Iām not advocating searching these out to add them, but if someone has already imported them then it seems clear that some confusion has already occured/the record should be set straight.
P.S. if the community disagrees and they all get deleted, I wouldnāt cry about it, that is just my thoughts on the matter 
What about fake collaborations tho? Do we replace the artist with one marked as fake? Remove the credit?
Perssonally Iāve been removing them, then adding in the release annotation that it has a fake credit. Thankfully most releases get deleted fast, so itās just trivia at this point (until IA comes to expose your dirty secrets~)
If Skrillex has no real involvement with the track, then it should be a new artist āSkillrex (AI generated)ā. With details added to the annotation about what kind of fake was generated.
I mean not only AI generated. Just that thereās an added credits of someone clearly no involved at all
If you at convert it to a fake name, then it stops the next editor from adding the real Skillrex again.
Related. An episode of āSearch Engine Podcastā