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 “still voteable” should at least go to a different artist. “Kupla (AI fake)” as it was not from the original artist, even if Spotify filed it there.
Though I’d be for deleting these, trouble is it was “released” in some form. But spam is spam.
Thanks for making this thread @chaban!
From what I’ve seen, there’s two kinds of these scam releases. One is fake AI generated stuff that’s 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 shouldn’t 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 “fake” artist page for such credits.
Oh nice, glad to see a post about these! These are common in KPop(Search r/kpophelp for “hacked spotify” and you find plenty of examples), and some times end up added to MB
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/482c9024-a160-41d2-afdd-84d538b9aab3
https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/8d6341f6-627f-4292-9d09-6c05b80ae111
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 shouldn’t be included IMO.
As I mentioned on Log in - MusicBrainz, I am favour of leaving these, and separating them into a new artist that is clearly marked as “scam”.
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 “what is this ‘Wilching’ single by BADVILLAIN” they can find it on MusicBrainz, see that it is fake, and not bother finding it.
I’m 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 wouldn’t 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 I’ve been removing them, then adding in the release annotation that it has a fake credit. Thankfully most releases get deleted fast, so it’s 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 “Skillrex (AI generated)”. With details added to the annotation about what kind of fake was generated.
I mean not only AI generated. Just that there’s 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 “Search Engine Podcast”
In the AI Shit department, my “AI scam” comment was replaced by an euphemistically “neutral” (AI‐generated blues music) comment. 
But OK, it’s well true that reusing another artist name is even more black belt golden medal, in the scale of Scammy Awards.
I stumbled upon a famous Japanese artist name hijack, in Latin form, with an English 2023 “single” on Deezer (where the genuine artist has no Latin name) and a Vietnamese 2023 “single” on Apple Music.
Spotify is the winner, with both scam singles.
I guess it’s AI, as well, but was there music AI Shit in 2023?
Hopefully, it does not exist in MB, but I’m wondering if I should add it, with an AI scam comment.
But, 1. It goes against my principles, and 2. Someone will again remove my AI scam comment…