{"slug": "ai-music-is-stealing-from-real-artists", "title": "AI music is stealing from real artists", "summary": "The Atlantic has created a searchable database revealing that music from 21 million artists, including Bad Bunny and Taylor Swift, was secretly used to train AI music generators like Suno and Udio. Soulless, a platform that detects AI-generated music, published a series of articles detailing how it built its detector and attributes songs to specific AI models. The development raises concerns about unauthorized use of artists' work to train commercial AI systems.", "body_md": "Welcome to Soulless Music\n\nDownvote any machine you dislike.[See what they earn →](/earnings)\n\nArticleSoulless\n\nHow we built an AI-music detector for Soulless\n\nArticleSoulless\n\nWhich Suno made it? Version attribution\n\nArticleSoulless\n\nShipping the detector: a Mac mini in production\n\nArticleSoulless\n\nCalibrating the model for false positives\n\nArticleSoulless\n\nWe called a real song AI: teaching the detector self-doubt\n\nArticleSoulless\n\nAI attribution: Suno v4 hole and Udio\n\nArticleSoulless\n\nScan your own Spotify (and why Discover Weekly is off-limits)\n\nAI music detector\n\nPaste a Spotify or Deezer link and our detector calls it: human, or made by Suno, Udio and the rest.\n\nArticleThe Atlantic\n\nThe Free Music Archive Dataset\n\nArticleHypebeast\n\nBad Bunny, Taylor Swift Among 21 Million Artists Whose Music Was Secretly Used to Train AI\n\nArticleThe Verge\n\nThe Atlantic created a searchable database of the music used to train AI\n\nArticleThe Atlantic\n\nThe Millions of Songs Mashed Into AI-Generated Music\n\nArticleForbes\n\nHow To Tell If Your Favorite Music Artist Is AI-Generated\n\nToolDeezer\n\nDeezer's AI Music Detector\n\nToolSlopTracker\n\nSlopTracker: Exposing AI-Generated Artists on Spotify\n\nPaperarXiv\n\nStable Audio Open\n\nArticleSoulless\n\nHow we built an AI-music detector for Soulless\n\nArticleSoulless\n\nWhich Suno made it? Version attribution", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-music-is-stealing-from-real-artists", "canonical_source": "https://soullessmusic.com", "published_at": "2026-07-27 15:15:09+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-27 15:22:28.955193+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-ethics", "ai-policy", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["The Atlantic", "Soulless", "Suno", "Udio", "Bad Bunny", "Taylor Swift", "Deezer", "Spotify"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-music-is-stealing-from-real-artists", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-music-is-stealing-from-real-artists.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-music-is-stealing-from-real-artists.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-music-is-stealing-from-real-artists.jsonld"}}