Listen to some of the AI songs that RIAA allege copyright infringement by Suno and UdioAfter three record labels filed lawsuits against AI music platforms Suno and Udio yesterday (24 June), the Recording Industry Association of America has shared some of the tracks that sound seriously similar to popular songs.
One track, with prompts including “contemporary r&b” and “male singer”,  is titled jason derulo and the first lyric is “Jason Derulo” – of course, the American singer famously sings his own name at the start of his songs.  The reference being that the prompted track seemingly bears a striking likeness to a Jason Derulo-style song.

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Another track, with prompts including “1950s rock and roll” and “jerry lee lewis” has the title You shake my nerves and you rattle my br. The lyrics and melody appear to be a heavy nod to the lyrics and melody of Great Balls of Fire.
The third track the RIAA shares is based on the prompt “mellow trap”  with the music allegedly bearing similarities to the French producer CashMoneyAP.
The RIAA is leading the lawsuits, with Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Records Inc. among the plaintiffs. The lawsuits allege that the AI music platforms have unlawfully trained their generative AI models on recordings from the label. According to the RIAA, this is “mass infringement of copyrighted sound recordings copied and exploited without permission by two multi-million-dollar music generation services.”

Name that tune !
Sound familiar? That's because @suno_ai_ is training AI on copyrighted works…: https://t.co/GnRxCA0rDc: https://t.co/lr3Z7tHmyB: https://t.co/zXjPi68lJF
Learn more about our legal action against Suno: https://t.co/LOFOSrRp9M pic.twitter.com/OmF7iUqAd7
— RIAA (@RIAA) June 24, 2024

An RIAA spokesperson provided a press statement to MusicTech in light of the lawsuits: “Suno continues to dodge the basic question: what sound recordings have they illegally copied? In an apparent attempt to deceive working artists, rightsholders, and the media about its technology, Suno refuses to address the fact that its service has literally been caught on tape – as part of the evidence in this case – doing what Mr. Shulman says his company doesn’t do: memorizing and regurgitating the art made by humans.
“Winners of the streaming era worked cooperatively with artists and rightsholders to properly license music. The losers did exactly what Suno and Udio are doing now.”

Tell me you use copyrighted recordings without telling me you use copyrighted recordings…
Listen to these AI samples from @udiomusic… Oh wait, they took them down. But check out the prompts used to create the recordings.
Find out more: https://t.co/LOFOSrRp9M pic.twitter.com/S0mkY87XeD
— RIAA (@RIAA) June 24, 2024

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