Spotify partnering with multinational music companies to develop 'responsible' AI products

Spotify partnering with multinational music companies to develop'responsible' AI products The market-leading music streamer is collaborating with the Sony, Universal and Warner music groups - whose combined rosters feature artists including Beyoncé, Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift - to create new AI features. The tension between the music industry and some tech firms has already led to three major labels suing AI companies whose tools create music from user prompts. If the music industry doesn't lead in this moment, AI-powered innovation will happen elsewhere, without rights, consent, or compensation." Both Udio and Suno have said their technology is designed to generate new musical output and does not reproduce specific artists' work. The head of Universal Music Group, Sir Lucian Grainge, wrote in a memo to staff this week that Universal would seek an artist's consent before licensing use of their voice or existing songs to an AI company.