A day after the world’s largest record labels were hit with copyright infringement lawsuits, AI-powered music startup Udio is responding.
Copyright infringement lawsuits on an “almost unimaginable scale” against Udio and rival artificial intelligence music startup Suno were filed this week by labels Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group.
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Complaints from major record labels accuse AI startups of mass copying copyrighted songs to train their models on them, and then creating recent copyright-infringing music that closely resembles the original copyrighted training data.
The labels say Suno and Udio’s artificial intelligence models create products that are strikingly similar to original compositions and recreate specific artist characteristics, including Jason Derulo’s distinctive habit of singing his name at the starting of songs.
Suno CEO Mikey Shulman defended the technology yesterday’s magazinestating that he creates recent content and does not replicate existing music.
Overall, the rapid development of AI-based music generation has led to a conflict over training data and results that currently shows no signs of resolution.