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Hack reveals Suno trained AI on millions of scraped songs

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from The Verge ·

A hack of AI music startup Suno exposed that its training data included millions of songs scraped from YouTube, Deezer, and Genius without permission. The company had previously refused to disclose its training sources. The leak provides rare evidence of the scale of unlicensed data use in generative AI music.

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The hack confirms what many suspected: Suno's impressive output came from wholesale scraping, raising serious copyright questions the company can no longer dodge.
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