The RIAA's lawsuit vs. generative music startups will be the bloodbath AI needs

Lawsuits by the RIAA against music generation startups Suno and Udio look strong enough to become a damaging precedent for other AI companies facing similar claims. The companies appear to have trained their models on copyrighted recordings without label permission, based on their own admissions and on investor Antonio Rodriguez of Matrix Partners, who told Rolling Stone he probably wouldn't have invested had they had label deals. The RIAA says its suits cover a few thousand songs that the models regurgitate as lightly garbled versions of the originals. The predicted outcome is that the companies will be forced to expose their training data, followed by a settlement or a speedy judgment against Udio and Suno.