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Rights holders for Elvis Presley and Eminem have filed lawsuits against AI music generator Suno, alleging it trained its models on hundreds of copyrighted songs and enabled users to generate music imitating the artists' voices and styles without permission, violating copyright and publicity rights. The cases cite U.S. and Tennessee law.[AI generated]
Why's our monitor labelling this an incident or hazard?
The AI music generator app is explicitly described as using AI to generate music imitating specific artists without permission, which constitutes unauthorized use of copyrighted material and likeness. This directly implicates violations of intellectual property rights and possibly other legal rights, which are harms under the AI Incident definition. The involvement of AI in generating the infringing content is clear, and the lawsuits represent direct consequences of the AI system's use. Although the case is ongoing and allegations are not yet proven, the event describes an AI Incident because the harm (copyright infringement and rights violations) is alleged to have already occurred due to the AI system's outputs.[AI generated]