AI: World's biggest music labels sue over copyright

Supporters have compared machine learning by AI tools to the way humans learn by reading, hearing and seeing previous works. But in the complaints, which were filed in federal court in Massachusetts and New York, the record labels say the AI firms are simply making money from having copied the songs. The complaints say Suno and Udio produce works like "Prancing Queen" that even devoted ABBA fans would struggle to distinguish from an authentic recording from the band. Songs cited in the Udio lawsuit include Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You" and "My Girl" by The Temptations. They said there was nothing about AI that excused the firms from "playing by the rules" and warned that the "wholesale theft" of the recordings threatened "the entire music ecosystem". The lawsuits come just months after roughly 200 artists including Billie Eilish and Nicki Minaj signed a letter calling for the "predatory" use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the music industry to be stopped.