BMG signed a deal with Suno to let them license any music from BMG artists who want to opt in, and get paid for that.
...Except they already scraped YouTube for everything, so I don't know what this means. I guess Suno just has to mail everyone in BMG's stable a check for 100 shiny dollars every month, and no one can sue?
And if someone opts out, then maybe they can sue? Maybe?
This is such nonsense.
You can ask any chatbot to give you tags for Suno that will make it generate any artist's voice, without using their name in the tags. And it works every time. The robots based on stealing are really good at tricking eachother into doing whatever you want, with digital lies. That's this economy.
All the legal shenanigans seem mostly Millennials tricking Boomers into letting them steal, because the Boomers don't understand how these models work. Which is funny, and fuck all of these people.
Every song I've ever made in Suno sounded like a real artist, the artist I specifically wanted to do my "demo." They're all there already. Just like with any generative AI, you just have to figure out how to bypass whatever guardrails it says it has. Because it already stole everything. This is bog-standard AI prompting.
At some point the lawyers are going to figure this out, right? Why haven't they yet?

















