Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Suno, Udio
The recording industry’s three major label groups are uniting in their fight against artificial intelligence. Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group are suing Suno and Udio, two AI start-ups, for copyright infringement. The labels, aided by the Recording Industry Association of America, claim the firms have engaged in “willful copyright infringement at an almost unimaginable scale” by copying their music to train AI on it. Both Suno and Udio use AI to generate songs from users’ text prompts. In responses filed August 1, both Suno and Udio admitted their models trained on copyrighted songs, but claimed that training was legal under fair use. The RIAA called their…
