Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter SZA has slammed AI and artists who “support this degenerate shit,” having discovered that more than 200 of her songs have been used to train AI.
Posting on Instagram Stories, the 36-year-old behind hits like ‘Kill Bill’ and ‘Luther’ with Kendrick Lamar shared the results of a search of her name on an AI music database. The search apparently revealed that 238 of her songs had been used in AI training datasets.
“Checked and music AI has trained off 238 of my songs. I’m certain some unreleased. If you’re a musician and you support this degenerate shit? You’re disgusting and there’s NOTHING YOU COULD EVER SAY TO ME TO MAKE THIS OKAY. I hope u have the life u deserve.”
SZA took specific aim at the AI music-making company Suno and producer Diplo in a subsequent post.
“Ionno who needs to hear this but diplo has equity in suno and is actively attempting to train it on the best and brightest black minds of writers and producers,” she wrote. “We make up 13% of the American population yet influence the world with our sound and perspective.”
