Suno moves to licensed music training, but 'user data' from old models raises concerns

jordiponsdotme · x · 2026-09-10

Suno's chief product officer Jack Brody said the company is moving to models trained on licensed music — a shift Ed Newton-Rex credits to the wave of lawsuits against AI music companies. But he flags two worries: Suno says the new models were still trained on "Suno user data", which likely means outputs generated by earlier models that were trained on musicians' work without permission; and "preference learnings from its earlier models" shares the same tainted provenance. The episode raises a broader question about whether self-generated training data can launder a legally problematic lineage.

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