Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius
404 Media Jason Koebler ● Covered by 2 sources
A hacker breached Suno AI and revealed that the music generation tool scraped millions of songs from YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, Pond5, Jamendo, Freesound, and other sources to train its model. The leaked source code shows Suno ingested over 2 million music clips from YouTube Music alone and at least 790,000 hours of audio across all sources combined. The disclosure provides concrete evidence supporting record industry lawsuits against Suno for training on copyrighted material without permission.
Why it matters
Hacked source code reveals how Suno scraped decades worth of music and podcasts from the internet to train its AI tool.
