SZA Claims AI Has Been Trained On More Than 200 of Her Songs, Including Unreleased Music – AfroTech
SZA claims AI has created music using countless songs of hers.
On her Instagram Story, she claimed that AI has been trained on 238 of her songs, including unreleased music. That same Story expresses her disdain for AI’s presence in the music industry and those who champion it. Separately, she mentioned producer Diplo, who she alleges is an equity holder in AI music-generation platform Suno and is training it on “the best and brightest black minds of writers and producers,” according to Variety.
Diplo has said in an interview with Daniel Wall, ”You’re not gonna win, there’s no fighting AI” and that “it’s proven every time that technology wins.”
SZA went on to share further warnings in a caption on her private “notmusicatalliswear” Instagram account, per Variety, adding, “We make up 13% of the American population yet influence the world with our sound and perspective. ”I AINT HEARD A WHITE AI SONG YET…We have no protection in legislature medical or creative. The easiest to steal from. DO NOT GIVE AWAY YOUR VIBRANIUM !!! DO NOT TRAIN AI W YOUR GENIUS.”
Variety reported that a Suno spokesperson declined to comment and instead directed the publication to a LinkedIn post by Jack Brody, Suno’s chief product officer.
“One of the most common questions people ask about AI is whether models can reproduce material from their training data,” Brody wrote. “Our answer is simple: no, that should not happen. Our philosophy has always been that AI should help people create new music, not replicate someone else’s. That’s why we built our models around what we call ‘Original Creation, By Design,’ training strategies intended to reduce the risk of generating unauthorized reproductions.”
He continued, “For example, we do not use artist names as a category of training metadata – meaning we made an intentional choice not to teach models artist names because our goal is to help people create brand new songs, not music that sounds like existing artists.”
