The suits suggest the two companies, Udio and Suno, used music owned by the labels in order to “train” their generative AI models “en masse,”Both companies allow users to generate music tracks using a variety of keywords or prompts, creating tracks in a vast range of musical styles and with or without vocals and lyrics. They do so in the same way a text generator or an image generator can produce text or images through user prompts.
“The music community has embraced AI and we are already partnering and collaborating with responsible developers to build sustainable AI tools centered on human creativity that put artists and songwriters in charge,” RIAA Chairman and CEO Mitch Glazier said in a press release. “But we can only succeed if developers are willing to work together with us.
“These are straightforward cases of copyright infringement involving unlicensed copying of sound recordings on a massive scale,” RIAA Chief Legal Officer Ken Doroshow said. “Suno and Udio are attempting to hide the full scope of their infringement rather than putting their services on a sound and lawful footing.
Artists such as Drake and Taylor Swift have moved to remove or block AI music based on their own material. Drake called one AI track featuring a reproduction of his voice “