Music labels sue AI companies Suno, Udio for US copyright infringement

Universal Music Group logo and stock graph seen displayed in this illustration taken, May 3, 2022.Major record labels Sony Music, Universal Music Group and Warner Records sued artificial intelligence companies Suno and Udio on Monday , accusing them of committing mass copyright infringement by using the labels' recordings to train music-generating AI systems.

"Our technology is transformative; it is designed to generate completely new outputs, not to memorise and regurgitate pre-existing content," Suno CEO Mikey Shulman said in a statement.

The lawsuits are the first to target music-generating AI following several cases brought by authors, news outlets and others over the alleged misuse of their work to train text-based AI models powering chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT. AI companies have argued that their systems make fair use of copyrighted material.

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