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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Alex Hern UK technology editor

Streaming sites urged not to let AI use music to clone pop stars

Jay-Z on stage.
Jay-Z on stage. His agent got a fake song removed from YouTube. Photograph: Johnny Louis/Getty

The music industry is urging streaming platforms not to let artificial intelligence use copyrighted songs for training, in the latest of a run of arguments over intellectual property that threaten to derail the generative AI sector’s explosive growth.

In a letter to streamers including Spotify and Apple Music, the record label Universal Music Group expressed fears that AI labs would scrape millions of tracks to use as training data for their models and copycat versions of pop stars.

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