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Music industry giants allege mass copyright violation by AI firms


Suno and Udio could face damages of up to $150,000 per song allegedly infringed.

The lawsuits, filed in federal courts in New York and Massachusetts, claim that the AI companies' use of copyrighted material to train their systems could lead to AI-generated music that directly competes with and potentially devalues the work of human artists. Like other generative AI models, both Udio and Suno (which we coveredseparately in April) rely on a broad selection of existing human-created artworks that teach a neural network the relationship between words in a written prompt and styles of music. Advertisement In the lawsuit, the record labels cite specific examples of AI-generated content that allegedly re-creates elements of well-known songs, including The Temptations' "My Girl," Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You," and James Brown's "I Got You (I Feel Good)."

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