No, typing an AI prompt is not ‘really active’ music creation
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Suno, an AI music startup facing lawsuits for copyright infringement, raised $250M and is valued at $2.45B. Its CEO claims text prompts enable active music creation, but the article questions this assertion.
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Suno, the AI music startup being sued by the big three major labels, the RIAA, and even some indie acts for illegally training its model on copyrighted material, just raised $250 million (which might help pay its legal bills). What caught my eye in the Wall Street Journal article about the funding round and the company's insane $2.45 billion valuation, however, was Suno co-founder and Chief Executive Mikey Shulman being quoted as saying:
"There is a really big future for music where way more people are doing it in a really active way, and where it has a much more valuable place in society."
Suno is primarily known for its text-prompt-bas …