
AI music startup Suno has been found to have scraped millions of songs and podcasts from platforms such as YouTube Music and Deezer to train its models. This was revealed after a hacker breached the company, exposing internal data and customer information. The dataset includes over 113,000 hours of YouTube Music audio, raising questions about copyright infringement. Suno argues that its data usage qualifies as fair use, but the music industry may dispute this claim. The incident underscores the challenges of balancing AI innovation with intellectual property rights.
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