When the AI-music start-up Suno recently introduced a feature that lets users upload audio of their own creation and have the software extend and endlessly reimagine it, one particular user took note. Legendary producer Timbaland quickly became obsessed with the process, deciding it was the future of music-making. He started …
Read More »A.I. Music Startup Suno Fires Back at Record Labels, Admits Training on Copyrighted Music
Five weeks after the three major record labels filed filed lawsuits against A.I. music startups Suno and Udio, accusing them of “trampling the rights of copyright owners,” Suno fired back Thursday in a legal filing, acknowledging that they trained their music-generating model on copyrighted music — while insisting that doing …
Read More »Washed Out Made an AI Music Video. The Backlash Was Swift
When Washed Out frontman Ernest Greene agreed to collaborate with filmmaker Paul Trillo on the world’s first music video to be made entirely using OpenAI‘s video-generation tool Sora, he didn’t quite know what he was getting himself into. “To me, this is just a brand-new tool to explore,” Greene tells …
Read More »AI-Music Arms Race: Meet Udio, the <em>Other</em> ChatGPT for Music
Just last year, many experts believed an AI model capable of generating complete, high-fidelity songs from text prompts wouldn’t arrive anytime soon,but now, an arms race is on between competing music-making models that do just that.Suno‘s v3 model, released to the public just weeks ago, was a remarkable breakthrough, particularly …
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