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Do YOU give your Netflix password to friends? AI that can track down users who illegally share accounts is unveiled

Synamedia’s new AI isn’t just for small-time fee avoiders.

Additional research from Parks Associates found that by 2021, credentials sharing will account for $9.9 billion of losses in pay-TV revenues and $1.2 billion of over-the-top (OTT) revenues.

The company says the system can also be used to track down large-scale for-profit operations to slash the losses.

From the article "Do YOU give your Netflix password to friends? AI that can track down users who illegally share accounts is unveiled" by Cheyenne Macdonald.

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