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Some of the world's largest record labels sued both Udio and Suno, two of the most popular AI music generators, accusing them of not only scraping huge amounts of music without permission or compensation but also of directly reproducing sections of famous songs in the AI music they generate.

The lawsuits state that "given that the foundation of its business has been to exploit copyrighted sound recordings without permission, Udio [and Suno] has been deliberately evasive about what exactly it has copied. This is unsurprising. After all, to answer that question honestly would be to admit willfu

Two class action lawsuits are in the works against two major AI companies, Udio and Suno, on behalf of independent artists. Lawyers at Delgado Entertainment Law and Hagens Berman have urged indie artists to get involved in the lawsuits. This will mean major support for musicians and songwriters who have had their work stolen to train generative AI models.

While federal legislation is in the works to protect artists from AI exploitation, the lawsuits are a potentially q

(This Oct. 18 story has been refiled to correct Concord's corporate name in paragraph 1)

Music publishers Universal Music (UMG.AS), opens new tab, ABKCO and Concord sued artificial intelligence company Anthropic in Tennessee federal court on Wednesday, accusing it of misusing an "innumerable" amount of copyrighted song lyrics to train its chatbot Claude.

The lawsuit, opens new tab said Anthropic violates the publishers' rights through its use of lyrics from at least 500 songs ranging from the Beach Boys' "God On

Lawyers for a Los Angeles firm representing State Farm in a lawsuit involving the rebuilding of a home after a fire have apologized for artificial intelligence hallucinations in their filings.

The homeowner's lawyers discovered in motions filed by State Farm "cases that do not exist, quotes that do not exist, and holdings that do not exist," according to a filing by Eric Khodadian, who is representing Fa'alagilagi Meni-Siliga.

Meni-Siliga filed her lawsuit in July 2024, naming a contractor and the contractor's insurance company, a public adjuster and her homeowners insurance company, State F

Otter.ai is a Mountain View, Calif.-based tech company that uses artificial intelligence to generate speech-to-text transcriptions. It has become a popular tool for transcribing virtual office meetings.

A federal lawsuit seeking class-action status accuses Otter.ai of "deceptively and surreptitiously" recording private conversations that the tech company uses to train its popular transcription service without permission from the people using it.

The company's AI-powered transcription service called Otter Notebook, which can do real-time transcriptions of Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams