The music industry has officially declared war on Suno and Udio, two of the most prominent AI music generators. A group of music labels including Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Group has filed lawsuits in US federal court on Monday morning alleging copyright infringement on a “massive scale.”
The plaintiffs seek damages up to $150,000 per work infringed. The lawsuit against Suno is filed in Massachusetts, while the case against Udio’s parent company Uncharted Inc. was filed in New York. Suno and Udio did not immediately respond to a request to comment.
“Unlicensed services like Suno and Udio that claim it’s ‘fair’ to copy an artist’s life’s work and exploit it for their own profit without consent or pay set back the promise of genuinely innovative AI for us all,” Recording Industry Association of America chair and CEO Mitch Glazier said in a press release.
Because humans don’t also take inspiration from other’s work they’ve heard and unconsciously repeat part of other songs they’ve heard before, possibly decades ago. Never happens. Never. Humans don’t profit from books they’ve read and apply to their career. Humans don’t profit from watching other humans do the thing and then learn to do it themselves.
All AI does is do the same thing but at ridiculous scale and ridiculous speeds. We shouldn’t hold progress because capitalism dictates that we shouldn’t put people out of jobs. We need to prepare for the future where there is no jobs and AI replaced all of them.
Someone posted links to some of the AI generated songs, and they are straight up copying. Blatantly so. If a human made them, they would be sued, too.
But a human can synthesize all those works and transform them into something new. All the AI is doing is regurgitating stuff it has heard before. I don’t want to try to put a bot on the same level as human creativity.
This is a shit take
Music copyright is such a shitshow. It doesn’t surprise that they would try this.
Edit: I just heard the generated songs that are part of the lawsuit. They’re pretty fucked if this is true,
Links maybe?
https://suno.com/song/16df3d1e-f817-4904-b9a8-eb6b18b6583d
https://suno.com/song/a9575656-5922-44fe-a925-b7582af7f8e4
https://suno.com/song/3b1f21b8-c56f-43fd-a858-6d70f0314b67
https://suno.com/song/a5d096df-98f7-4ba8-993b-b1696134e4c3
https://suno.com/song/b13bc2e2-5468-4b5c-b17f-44d23bdf9340
From this article
Edit: there’s even more examples in this article
I feel bad for Suno’s lawyer.
Our technology is transformative; it is designed to generate completely new outputs, not to memorize and regurgitate pre-existing content
Oops! You appear to have consumed and believed your own shit you’re peddling
“Completely new”
Okay, then don’t train it on anything at all and let’s see how it turns out.
To be fair, it’s as “new” as what the major record labels put out!
