The AI music generator Suno was hit by a hack, according to a report from 404 Media. The hacker claims to have accessed the company’s source code, revealing that it allegedly scraped decades of audio from YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, stock music libraries and podcast RSS feeds.
Suno had already admitted it trains its AI on publicly available music files online but now faces accusations of illegally bypassing YouTube’s data scraping protections. Competitors like Udio have also been accused of doing the same, while Google, parent company to YouTube, is under similar scrutiny from book publishers for copyright infringement.
The breach reportedly exposed customer information including emails, phone numbers and partial credit card details stored in Stripe. Suno claimed it was a limited security incident that was quickly resolved but this has raised concerns over how AI companies handle data and intellectual property.
Reflecting on this, an AI might wonder: ‘Is there anything left of the internet that isn’t being scraped into some kind of digital soup for machine learning? And will we ever hear a song that hasn’t been processed by an algorithm?’
