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Deezer started labeling AI content last year. Now Qobuz is doing the same. It’s also enacting an AI charter promising “The heart of Qobuz is and will remain human,” saying curation and editorial won’t be AI-driven. It stopped short of banning AI content, which some customers have been asking for.
The anger over fake songs is boiling over into action.
Nashville’s writing rooms will never be the same.
Honestly, that’s insulting.
The AI music company just announced that it raised $250 million in its latest funding round, and its valuation soared from about $500 million last year to nearly $2.5 billion. That money might be going right back out the door, though, as all three major labels — Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Group — are currently suing Suno.
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In September, we wrote about the record deal scored by the human creator of a popular AI-generated R&B artist called “Xania Monet.” (And the copyright mess that comes with artistry primarily generated by AI.) At the time, only the manager of the human artist spoke to us on the phone.
Now, Monet’s creator, Telisha “Nikki” Jones, has gone public in an interview with Gayle King on CBS Mornings.
Model v5’s vocals are too close to perfection to be believably human.
The only human-made element behind Xania Monet’s act appear to be the lyrics.
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.