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Turns out copyright law in music is special — and the record labels are bringing out the big guns.
“The integration of WavTool’s technology will make Suno even more powerful for professional songwriters and producers, and continue to deepen Suno’s role in advancing music production,” according to a press release. Suno recently introduced a new editing interface.
Musician Benn Jordan explains how he used “adversarial noise” — a technique applied to audio files that sounds normal to humans, but like something else entirely to AI models — to poison music generators. The “Poisonify” attack “makes music not only untrainable but threatens to degrade the entire model” too, according to Jordan, much like the Nightshade tool that artists use to protect their work.
The head of the sample platform thinks creatives “deserve better” than AI tools that do all the work for them.
Some of the biggest players in the music industry are suing generative AI music startups Suno and Udio for copyright infringement. In the lawsuits, plaintiffs include examples of AI songs that sound a lot like human artists — and some are pretty blatant.
Robert Kyncl estimates that within the next year, you’ll see lots of evolution in AI technologies and music. “You have to embrace technology,” he said.
It may also enable streaming fraud, reports The Financial Times, where bots are directed to target tracks to generate revenue.
Spotify has removed tens of thousands of AI-generated songs uploaded to its service by startup Boomy because of suspected “artificial streaming.” (Though Spotify did not confirm this.) It’s another example of generative AI enabling misuse by creating a flood of content.
[The Financial Times]
