{"id":6608,"date":"2026-06-24T16:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/21-million-copyrighted-songs-found-in-ai-training-datasets\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T16:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:26:12","slug":"21-million-copyrighted-songs-found-in-ai-training-datasets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/21-million-copyrighted-songs-found-in-ai-training-datasets\/","title":{"rendered":"21 Million Copyrighted Songs Found in AI Training Datasets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over <strong>21 million<\/strong> copyrighted songs are circulating in datasets used to train generative AI music models, <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/millions-of-songs-found-in-ai-training-datasets-investigation-reveals\/\">an investigation has found<\/a>, alongside the launch of a search tool that lets artists check whether their work has been included.<\/p>\n<p>The findings detail four major music datasets available to AI developers, containing recordings from both chart-topping acts and independent musicians. Artists named in the data include <strong>Billie Eilish<\/strong>, <strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong>, <strong>Nirvana<\/strong>, and <strong>Bad Bunny<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the datasets hold more than 100,000 recordings each, while the remaining two are far larger, comprising between 9 million and 12 million tracks apiece. All four have been downloaded thousands of times, though it remains difficult to trace which companies have used them because AI training data is rarely disclosed publicly. <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/google-moves-to-dismiss-artists-lyria-3-ai-training-lawsuit\/\"><strong>Google<\/strong><\/a> and <strong>Stability AI<\/strong> were identified as having used the <strong>Free Music Archive<\/strong> dataset in their training processes.<\/p>\n<p>A companion search tool, <strong>AI Watchdog<\/strong>, allows artists to search by name to see if their music appears in any of the four datasets. Searches show that <strong>Eric Prydz<\/strong> has 54 songs in the sets, <strong>Honey Dijon<\/strong> has 126, <strong>Bj\u00f6rk<\/strong> has 411, <strong>Moby<\/strong> has 213, <strong>Fatboy Slim<\/strong> has 175, <strong>The Chemical Brothers<\/strong> have 153, <strong>Daft Punk<\/strong> have 151, and <strong>Charlotte de Witte<\/strong> has 89.<\/p>\n<h2>Artist Reactions<\/h2>\n<p><strong>SZA<\/strong> shared her frustration on Instagram after discovering 238 of her songs in the datasets, including what she believes are unreleased tracks.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jus checked and music AI has trained off 238 of my songs. I\u2019m certain some unreleased. If your a musician and you support this degenerate shit? Your disgusting and there\u2019s NOTHING YOU COULD EVER SAY TO ME TO MAKE THIS OKAY.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Producer <strong>Kenny Beats<\/strong> directed criticism at AI music company <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/suno-secures-400-million-funding-at-5-4-billion-valuation\/\"><strong>Suno<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I can\u2019t imagine going into work daily knowing you are stealing from countless struggling musicians. I can\u2019t imagine being proud to earn a paycheck obliterating the work and dreams of artists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ<\/strong> reacted on Bluesky after finding 22 of her songs in the data.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To everyone who thought my music sounded like AI slop, did you ever think it was because Suno was using a dataset that contained 22 of my songs? 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Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/universalmusic.com\"><strong>Universal Music<\/strong><\/a> settled its own lawsuit against Udio, and the two parties agreed to collaborate on a new platform.<\/p>\n<p>Suno CEO <strong>Mikey Shulman<\/strong> previously drew widespread criticism for stating that \u201cit\u2019s not really enjoyable to make music now\u201d and that \u201cthe majority of people don\u2019t enjoy the majority of the time they spend making music.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over 21 million copyrighted songs are circulating in AI training datasets, and a new watchdog tool allows artists to search for their work.","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[516],"tags":[410,503,343,166,1458,553],"class_list":["post-6608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-culture-lifestyle","tag-ai-music","tag-copyright","tag-music-industry","tag-suno","tag-sza","tag-udio","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>21M Copyrighted Songs in AI Datasets, Watchdog Tool Launched<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An investigation reveals over 21 million copyrighted tracks in four AI music datasets. 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