"Jones released the Xania Monet album Unfolded on August 8th, and since then the TikTok-earnest power ballad "How Was I Supposed to Know?" has racked up 5 million streams across YouTube and Spotify. The Xania Monet voice isn't too far off from Beyoncé's, perhaps with a dash of Alicia Keys, and the similarities to Queen Bey are even stronger in the Southern pronunciation of words like "strength.""
"AI is also an active area of litigation. Platforms from ChatGPT to Suno were trained on copyrighted material in a way that some have argued is illegal. Just yesterday record labels escalated a lawsuit against Suno, claiming that the platform was trained on songs ripped from YouTube. And earlier this month Anthropic, the makers of Claude, settled a lawsuit brought by book authors for $1.5 billion."
Telisha Jones and the AI artist Xania Monet signed a reported $3 million record deal with Hallwood Media following the August 8 release of the album Unfolded. The TikTok-oriented power ballad "How Was I Supposed to Know?" accumulated roughly 5 million streams across YouTube and Spotify. The AI-generated voice resembles Beyoncé with hints of Alicia Keys. Jones provides lyrics while using the Suno platform to convert those lyrics into full musical compositions and vocal performances. The arrangement raises reputational and legal risks because of fan confusion over the AI identity and ongoing litigation around AI training on copyrighted material.
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