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The AI music company just announced that it raised $250 million in its latest funding round, and its valuation soared from about $500 million last year to nearly $2.5 billion. That money might be going right back out the door, though, as all three major labels — Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Group — are currently suing Suno.

In September, we wrote about the record deal scored by the human creator of a popular AI-generated R&B artist called “Xania Monet.” (And the copyright mess that comes with artistry primarily generated by AI.) At the time, only the manager of the human artist spoke to us on the phone.

“The integration of WavTool’s technology will make Suno even more powerful for professional songwriters and producers, and continue to deepen Suno’s role in advancing music production,” according to a press release. Suno recently introduced a new editing interface.

Musician Benn Jordan explains how he used “adversarial noise” — a technique applied to audio files that sounds normal to humans, but like something else entirely to AI models — to poison music generators. The “Poisonify” attack “makes music not only untrainable but threatens to degrade the entire model” too, according to Jordan, much like the Nightshade tool that artists use to protect their work.

Some of the biggest players in the music industry are suing generative AI music startups Suno and Udio for copyright infringement. In the lawsuits, plaintiffs include examples of AI songs that sound a lot like human artists — and some are pretty blatant.

Robert Kyncl estimates that within the next year, you’ll see lots of evolution in AI technologies and music. “You have to embrace technology,” he said.

It may also enable streaming fraud, reports The Financial Times, where bots are directed to target tracks to generate revenue.