Amazon's integration of the AI song generation platform, Suno, within Alexa has sparked controversy over copyright issues. Despite being a minor part of the Alexa Plus announcement, it highlights a larger legal battle around AI-generated music. The platform can produce songs based on text prompts but is facing lawsuits by major labels claiming it illegally uses copyrighted material. Suno argues its training data falls under fair use, but the legal debate continues, questioning the implications of AI in the music industry.
Suno, for those of you not familiar, is an AI song generator: enter a text prompt (such as 'a jazz, reggae, EDM pop song about my imagination') and a song comes back.
Suno essentially admits these songs were regurgitated from copyrighted source material, but it says such use was legal. 'It is no secret that the tens of millions of recordings that Suno's model was trained on presumably included recordings whose rights are owned by the Plaintiffs in this case,' it says in its own legal filing.
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