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11 November 2025

A number of companies now offer people the chance to create music using AI.

Names like Suno and Udio have revolutionised the music industry by allowing non-musicians the ability to generate very professional music tracks simply by using text prompts.

This stuff is so good that it has fooled many music critics and even created entirely new "virtual performers" with entire albums being released and performing very well on streaming services.

Naturally, the traditional recording studios and artists have been outraged by the way AI is stealing their market. As a result, these AI music companies are now facing a barrage of law suits challenging their right to use existing copyrighted tracks as training data.

Now something very interesting has happened.

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