Artists For An Ethical and Sustainable Internet has launched the Say No To Suno campaign.
In an open letter online, the artists’ campaign group has warned about the ambitions of Suno, which is reportedly generating more than seven million tracks a day.
The organisation quotes a LinkedIn post from Paul Sinclair, Suno’s chief music officer, which states that the company’s platform is about “empowerment” that enables “billions of fans to create and play with music”.
Deezer has reported that 85% of streams of fully AI-generated tracks on its service are fraudulent and include outputs from major generative models.
“The hijacking of the world’s entire treasure-trove of music floods platforms with AI slop and dilutes the royalty pools of legitimate artists from whose music this slop is derived,” said the post from Artists For An Ethical and Sustainable Internet.
Music Week has reached out to Suno for their response to the post.
Suno has been in legal disputes with major music companies, though it has reached a licensing deal with Warner Music. In contrast, AI music platform Udio has settled disputes and signed with UMG, Warner and Merlin.
Suno is also recruiting senior music industry figures, including former Merlin CEO Jeremy Sirota.
Part of the issue with Suno is the debate over a controlled ‘walled garden’ – meaning that AI music made using licensed repertoire would be controlled and only remain within that platform. Sinclair has made the case for platforms growing “the overall creative ecosystem” without such limits on distribution.
Warner Music’s deal with Suno includes download restrictions in certain scenarios.
“Responsible AI-generated music must evolve within a framework that respects and remunerates artists, enhances human creativity rather than supplants it, and empowers fans to engage with the music they love,” added the post from Artists For An Ethical and Sustainable Internet. “At the same time, AI services must preclude mass distribution of slop and prevent fraudsters from destroying the very ecosystem that has been built to reward and sustain artists and audiences alike.”
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