Suno snatched millions of songs from YouTube, Genius, and Deezer
Suno has long acknowledged that its AI music generator relied on the scraping of millions of songs available across the internet, but a new hack reveals just how the company pulled from streaming services and websites such as YouTube Music, Deezer and Genius to power its product — all while user information remained vulnerable. A report in 404 Media on Wednesday, relying on data a hacker provided to the outlet, showed the instructions in the company’s source code had it scrape files from “genius_hq, youtube_music, freesound, jamendo, imp, deezer,” with the stock music libraries Freesound, Jamendo and the International Music Score Library Project among the other sources scraped.
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Suno has long acknowledged that its AI music generator relied on the scraping of millions of songs available across the internet, but a new hack reveals just how the company pulled from streaming services and websites such as YouTube Music, Deezer and Genius to power its product — all while user information remained vulnerable. A report in 404 Media on Wednesday, relying on data a hacker provided to the outlet, showed the instructions in the company’s source code had it scrape files from “genius_hq, youtube_music, freesound, jamendo, imp, deezer,” with the stock music libraries Freesound, Jamendo and the International Music Score Library Project among the other sources scraped. The instructions demanded that “non-music” be filtered out. The hacker also had access to Suno’s customer list, which included emails, phone numbers and Stripe payment details, according to the report.
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- Suno has long acknowledged that its AI music generator relied on the scraping of millions of songs available across the internet, but a new hack reveals just how the company pulled from streaming services and websites such as YouTube Music, Deezer and Genius to power its product — all while user information remained vulnerable. A report in 404 Media on Wednesday, relying on data a hacker provided to the outlet, showed the instructions in the company’s source code had it scrape files from “genius_hq, youtube_music, freesound, jamendo, imp, deezer,” with the stock music libraries Freesound, Jamendo and the International Music Score Library Project among the other sources scraped.
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Suno Hack Shows How YouTube Music, Deezer and Genius Data Trained AI Music Generator’s Models
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