Warner Music settles lawsuit with AI music firm and launches joint venture

[Teletubby 154,567]

Warner Music Group (WMG) will begin an artificial intelligence (AI) music venture with technology start-up Suno - a year after it sued the firm in a landmark case.

As part of the settlement agreement struck between the two firms, Warner will let users create AI-generated music on Suno using the voices, names and likeness of artists who opt-in to the programme.

The record label, which represents artists like Dua Lipa, Coldplay and Ed Sheeran, was among several music giants like Sony Music that sued Suno and a similar platform called Udio.

AI-generated content has been controversial, with many artists voicing concerns that it could undermine human songwriters.

Suno's 2026 model will replace its existing version and will require users to pay for audio downloads, said Warner. Songs on the service's free tier can still be played and shared.

Warner said the "first-of-its-kind partnership" will open "new frontiers" in music creation while ensuring the creative community is compensated.

 

[PartySick 164,367]

AI has no place in music. Period.

[Roughhouse Dandy 12,338]

*****. To all of them. 

Edited November 26, 2025 by Roughhouse Dandy

[nATAH 52,329]

what a cowardly joke of a company, shame on them all

AI has no place in music

[weed 75,527]

the gp in 5 years

[Lord Mayhem 2,141]

Wow...Gaga truly is the last big pop star 

[timdrake 1,280]

45 minutes ago, PartySick said:

AI has no place in music. Period.

For real. I don't get why this is so hard for people to comprehend. Music isn't just about the noises that hit our ears, it's so much more.

[RAMROD 111,939]

Nnnn, not the joint venture in the end.

It's all about the money with the corporates, they don't care about protecting arts, artists, & consumers. 
 

 

[Ronk 14,830]

3 hours ago, PartySick said:

AI has no place in music. Period.

MTE.  When AI became a thing I posted a negative comment about it.  People here got upset with me because they were having fun with AI.  But my concern was only that AI could do damage to human artists.  I still feel that way.  When AI gets perfected to the point that AI generated content cannot be distinguished from a human artist's music, voice, performance, image, or video, then the potential damage could be enormous.  

I suggest that legislation be written defining a severe penalty for damaging an artist by creating AI content.   Otherwise, we are entering a brave new world.

Clearly, AI has huge benefits in non-music fields such as medical research.

[BeyonkaAte 649]

disgusting

[GAYHEMikey 8,189]

4 hours ago, weed said:

the gp in 5 years

Electric Zoo!

[elegidadedios 2,615]

3 hours ago, Lord Mayhem said:

Wow...Gaga truly is the last big pop star 

I mean true but we shouldn't brag about it if you ask me lol

[Lord Mayhem 2,141]

1 hour ago, elegidadedios said:

I mean true but we shouldn't brag about it if you ask me lol

My comment wasnt meant to brag...it was more of a reflection of how far the decay of the music industry has gone. Soon there will be no new artists and only AI generated artists...always available to play shows, always camera ready, always pitch perfect, never get sick, need zero pay, no vacation, etc...

It's truly sad...

[CautiousLurker 19,647]

3 hours ago, Ronk said:

MTE.  When AI became a thing I posted a negative comment about it.  People here got upset with me because they were having fun with AI.  But my concern was only that AI could do damage to human artists.  I still feel that way.  When AI gets perfected to the point that AI generated content cannot be distinguished from a human artist's music, voice, performance, image, or video, then the potential damage could be enormous.  

I suggest that legislation be written defining a severe penalty for damaging an artist by creating AI content.   Otherwise, we are entering a brave new world.

Clearly, AI has huge benefits in non-music fields such as medical research.

Same here, people were not nice when I brought up the inherent issue with genAI which is that it was trained on works of people who did not consent to having their work used to ultimately create a commercial product aimed at replacing them.

This settlement is disappointing because it sidesteps this issue. They claim their model will be opt-in, but it's already been trained on works of people who did not opt-in, the damage has been done... Unless I'm misunderstanding and they're going to scrap the algorithm they have now and start training one from scratch based on work that they do get permission to use, which I doubt will yield a viable result as artists are almost universally against it, and on top of that are rightfully upset and angry with the way these companies behaved.