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Udio and Suno, AI startups known for generating realistic-sounding songs from prompts, are facing lawsuits from major record labels for alleged copyright infringement. The lawsuits, spearheaded by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), claim that these companies illegally used vast amounts of copyrighted music to train their AI models. This legal action adds to the growing scrutiny of AI firms that often use data scraped from the internet without permission. The RIAA argues that generative AI could disrupt the music industry’s business model, allowing potential licensees to create AI-generated sound-alikes at minimal cost, thereby bypassing traditional licensing. The RIAA is seeking damages of $150,000 per infringing work, a sum that could be astronomical given the extensive datasets these AI systems use. The lawsuits could fundamentally reshape how AI companies operate, questioning whether they can claim fair use when using copyrighted materials for training. Both Udio and Suno have not disclosed their training datasets, and while they argue that their technology is transformative, the outcome of these lawsuits could set a significant precedent for the AI industry’s future.

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