The Recording Industry Association of America and record labels allege that the leading AI music generators trained on their artists’ work without permission.

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.

  • Hacksaw@lemmy.caEnglish
    51·
    2 years ago

    The best part about this is that UMG WMG and SMG all simultaneously went “you can’t take an artist’s life work and exploit it, that’s unfair, it’s OUR job to take an artist’s life’s work and exploit it”

    • pavnilschanda@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      2 years ago

      This is true in the art industry as well. Many outsourced artists from third world countries are exploited with unreasonable wages and long hours

  • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
    182·
    2 years ago

    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

  • Kowowow@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    Aren’t there two guys who already “own” all possible combinations of notes they should get in on the fight too

  • SacredHeartAttack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    113·
    2 years ago

    I can’t believe I’m on the music industry’s side on this. It’s a sad day when I have to root for the team that’s made it hard for me to make a living while they fight against the team that’s trying to make me obsolete.

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    2 years ago

    Okay, now we’re cooking!

    This is like when the bad guy from the last movie teams up with the heroes at the last minute to help fight the new big bad.

  • Grimy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    2 years ago

    AI tools and entertainment will become common place in the future. All these lawsuits decide is if we can have it for free or through a subscription payed to Sony and friends.