Sony Music and Universal Music Group have filed a new lawsuit against artificial intelligence music service Suno. It claimed that the new Suno v6 model violated their copyright: it was trained on user profiles generated by previous AI models that were trained on unlicensed music downloaded from YouTube and other sources.
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After the release of model v6, Suno chief product officer Jack Brody told the resource edgeIt is “trained from scratch on a new dataset”, including “user profiles”. In turn, Sony and Universal Music claim in the lawsuit “Training a ‘new’ model using the results of the offending model does not eliminate the violation; it simply whitewashes it, transferring the value of Plaintiffs’ creative contributions from the copied records to the compromised models, from those models to the results of their work, and from there to v6.” “V6 is not a new beginning; it’s the fruit of the same poisonous tree,” – said the plaintiff.
Sony also claims that Suno uses distillation to train v6 models. That is, the model is trained to reproduce the results of a previously “trained” model created using illegally obtained data.
Even if v6 was not trained directly on the plaintiff’s recordings, it still benefited from the unauthorized copies that Suno retained. As a result, the lawsuit’s authors say that before the company actually starts creating a model from scratch, its decisions will be based on the stolen data.
Suno does not have licensing agreements with well-known companies such as Sony and UMG.
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