AI music company Suno, led by CEO Mikey Shulman, posted a set of principles on its website Thursday (Aug. 6). “We’ve always believed that how we build matters just as much as what we build,” wrote Shulman in a company blog post. The list of principles included the stated goals that “AI should enable originality, not imitation” and that “more people creating music should strengthen the ecosystem.” The post also reiterated the company’s plan to limit downloads of AI songs from its platform — something first promised during its settlement and licensing deal with Warner Music Group.
The new post comes just a week after the AI music giant, recently valued at over $5.4 billion, lost a copyright infringement battle with German collection society GEMA. In the lawsuit, the society accused Suno of replicating songs from their members, including Lou Bega’s classic “Mambo No. 5.”
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“AI should help people create something new, not imitate someone else’s work,” the Suno post reads. “This philosophy has guided how we’ve built our models and platform from the start.” It continued to detail Suno’s training strategies, dubbed “Original Creation, By Design,” to reduce the possibility of unauthorized recreation of a human-made song. “For example, we intentionally chose not to use artist names in our training metadata because our goal is to help people create original songs — not music that sounds like existing artists,” he wrote.
