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Chris WIllman/Variety Grammy-winning Americana crooner Jason Isbell is one of several new litigants in a new federal lawsuit against the AI music generator Suno, arguing the company has allowed users to produce tracks based on musicians’ identities with its models without their consent.
The lawsuit — filed Monday in the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts by a group that includes Isbell, Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven frontman David Lowery, Texas blues musician Guy Forsyth and Florida-based saxophonist Eduardo Calle — compared Suno to the Borg, the “Star Trek” villains known for their “resistance is futile” method of absorbing their victims into their hive mind by restructuring their minds to become a similar, if changed versions of themselves. That is what Suno does when users type an artist’s name into its models to try and produce sonic variants of their work, attorney Alan D. Rose wrote in the complaint for the plaintiffs.
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