SZA is once again standing on business, and her latest target is the growing use of AI in music — specifically when it involves her own catalogue.
The singer took to Instagram over the weekend after discovering that a staggering 238 of her songs had allegedly been used to train AI music generators like Suno and Udio. The revelation comes off the back of a public database highlighted by The Atlantic, which allows users to search which artists may have been included in AI training datasets — often without their knowledge.
Unsurprisingly, SZA was not thrilled.
“If your [sic] a musician and you support this degenerate shit ? Your DISGUSTING and there’s NOTHING YOU COULD EVER SAY TO ME TO MAKE THIS OKAY,” she wrote in an Instagram Story post, adding, “I hope u have the life u deserve”.
Beyond the sheer volume of tracks, SZA also suggested that unreleased material may have been accessed and fed into these systems, raising even more questions about how this data is being sourced in the first place.
She expanded on her concerns in a recent interview with i-D, pointing to what she sees as a broader, more uncomfortable pattern within AI-generated music.
“It’s happening disproportionately with Black music. Why am I hearing AI covers of Olivia Dean, when Olivia Dean just came the f**k out? She can’t even collect the streams. I’m also really offended by the type of Black music that’s coming out of AI. Weird, stereotypical struggle music,” she said.
SZA also made it clear that, from her perspective, this isn’t about competition with other artists. “I’m not up against the pop girls, I’m not up against the R&B girls. I’m up against anti-intellectualism and doing things easy. The type of blend of information my human experience provides, AI can’t even be prompted to f**k with.”
Her frustration echoes a growing divide in the music industry. While some artists and producers have openly embraced AI tools, others have gone in the opposite direction. Producer Kenny Beats, who has worked with SZA in the past, didn’t hold back in a post directed at Suno.
“You are true losers… I can’t imagine going into work daily knowing you are stealing from countless struggling musicians… Get f****d, every single one of you,” he wrote on X.
Hey @suno
— kenneth blume (@kennybeats) June 20, 2026
You are true losers. Whoever’s running this account, and your boss, and their bosses boss. I can’t imagine going into work daily knowing you are stealing from countless struggling musicians. I can’t imagine being proud to earn a paycheck obliterating the work and…
Meanwhile, figures like Diplo have taken a more pragmatic — and, depending on who you ask, bleak — stance. In an earlier interview, he said: “There’s no fighting AI… 99 per cent of people are going to wanna love the best product made the quickest, made the cheapest.”
SZA called out the producer on her private Instagram, claiming that Diplo allegedly has equity in Suno and “is actively attempting to train it on the best and brightest black minds of writers and producers”.
“We make up 13 per cent of the American population yet influence the world w our sound and perspective,” SZA continued on her post.
”I AINT HEARD A WHITE AI SONG YET…We have no protection in legislature medical or creative. The easiest to steal from. DO NOT GIVE AWAY YOUR VIBRANIUM !!! DO NOT TRAIN AI W YOUR GENIUS.”
Suno has maintained that its models don’t store or reproduce specific songs and that it’s working on improving impersonation safeguards, according to a LinkedIn post from chief product officer Jack Brody.
PEDESTRIAN.TV has reached out to Diplo and Sudo for comment.
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