It would more likely be fines, especially once you're big enough to pull strings.
It wouldn't be too much trouble to add "copyright checker" code to the bots that's good enough to provide a fig leaf for your defense. Automated large-scale systems make mistakes all the time, after all. Pay the fines, do the minimum work necessary to comply with the court order, rinse and repeat, and keep your PR team on standby.
Fair enough, maybe I should have said that in theory they could go to jail for fraud.
In practice, it's unlikely that even a dedicated scam operation gets the attention of the authorities.. it rarely happens, probably because there are more serious crimes to prosecute.
It wouldn't be too much trouble to add "copyright checker" code to the bots that's good enough to provide a fig leaf for your defense. Automated large-scale systems make mistakes all the time, after all. Pay the fines, do the minimum work necessary to comply with the court order, rinse and repeat, and keep your PR team on standby.