The biggest competitors in the music world litigated two AI start-ups alleging that they used copyrighted songs to develop their tools

Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Warner Records on Monday,  brought two lawsuits against Suno and Udio (AI music generators) for copyright infringement. They averred that AI start-ups are exploiting the works of the original artists.

The biggest competitors in the music world litigated two AI start-ups alleging that they used copyrighted songs to develop their tools. It will add up to the current lawsuits that are confronted by Artificial Intelligence.

According to the reports, the record music companies alleged that the AI music generators trained their AI algorithms using songs of which they didn’t have rights or ownership. Generative AI tools like chatbots, image-generators and AI song creators are made by stirring up myriad numbers of human-created content or music.

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The AI music generators generally affirm, the use of such human-created music is made under the fair use concept – as a copyright law to protect original content. Meanwhile, many creators informed that their works are being taken by AI music generators to train tools that might replace their original work.

These music generators like Suno and Udio allow users to create a new song by typing the genre name, lyrics or the mode of music they want to generate. They can also add instrument names to create music which goes well with the given content.

When the users demand the generators to create a song of ad hoc artists, for instance, generate a song in the style of “Dolly Parton” the AI won’t respond which leads to an error text saying that it will not work on AI with an artist’s name, according to The Washington Post.

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On the contrary, the complainant showcased several examples of the AI music generators creating different songs that were very much identical or near to the original version. In the detection test, a song created on Suno with lyrics from Jerry Lee Lewis “Great Balls of Fire” and the real artist’s name resulted in an AI song with the same rhythm and music as the original hit in 1961.

According to the reports, Mikey Shulman,  CEO of Suno, stated that they didn’t provide any service copying anybody’s original art. “Our technology is transformative; it is designed to generate different and new outputs, and we don’t allow user prompts that reference specific artists,” he added.

The music giants are expected to adhere to punishments to the AI music generators for copyright infringement, asking to shut down their services and to levy legal payment of $150,000 for every copied work.