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Courtesy of Suno 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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