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AI Music Startup Suno Trained Its Model on Millions of Scraped Songs — Without Permission
The Verge·Thursday, 16 July 2026
Hacked data from AI music generator Suno reveals the company scraped millions of songs and lyrics from YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius to train its AI, according to 404 Media. Suno had previously refused to disclose what was in its training data. The leak is one of the first concrete looks inside a major AI music company's dataset.
Why It Matters
If AI companies can quietly train on any music they find online, it threatens the livelihoods of musicians globally — including India's massive independent and film music industry.
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