Suno, an increasingly popular and well-funded artificial intelligence music generator whose technology has been integrated into Microsoft products, has been used to create music with hateful messages, according to a report by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
The ADL says it has uncovered “a vast library of disturbing songs created with Suno,” including songs that glorify Hitler and “white power,” tracks that employ racial slurs and others that spread racially-charged misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war and the Pandemic of severe special infectious pneumonia.
ADL said in a blog post published on Friday (June 14) that the tracks highlight “the urgent need to strengthen content moderation guidelines and raise awareness of the various ways in which bad actors can weaponize the production of artificial intelligence.”
In addition, this article also shares a song on the Suno platform called ” Squatting for Hitlerwhose lyrics represent the Nazi leader’s reference to a “national awakening”:
Another screenshot shows a song titled Wuhan Blueswhich “includes bigotry [anti-Asian] Tropes and stereotypes surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic,” the ADL said.
Suno’s terms of service state that the service prohibits content that is “unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, excessively violent, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, pornographic, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, discriminatory, or otherwise objectionable.” “.
However, the ADL said users have been able to bypass hateful content restrictions through a variety of artificial intelligence tricks, which they have been sharing on social media platforms.
The organization said it had contacted Suno and Microsoft about the songs but had “received no response.”
However, Suno appears to have taken action, at least against the ADL-marked tracks. In a search of Suno’s catalog on Tuesday (June 18), MBW was unable to find any of the tracks referenced in the ADL report.
The report comes a month after Suno closed a company. $125 million Series B funding round, the company’s valuation was reported at US$500 million. The company’s investors include venture capital firms Jingwei partners, Lightspeed Venture Capitaland Founder Groupand former GitHub CEO Nat Friedmanand Andre CapaldiCo-founder of ChatGPT Maker Open artificial intelligence.
Suno has also received support from Microsoft. Through cooperation, Suno’s technology has been integrated into Microsoft’s Copilot AI application.
For the music industry, Suno has come under increasing scrutiny over suspicions that the company is using copyrighted music to train artificial intelligence without authorization.
In a recent column in MBW, Ed Newton-Rexformer head of information Stable artificial intelligence Founder of the non-profit Ethical Artificial Intelligence Certification Organization well trainedshowed the results of a forensic analysis of songs generated by Suno, which Newton-Rex said showed the company had trained its artificial intelligence on material from songs by the likes of Ed Sheeran, ABBA and Queen.
One of the company’s early investors—— Antonio Rodriguez Matrix Partners – Advice rolling stones Earlier this year, he prepared for Suno to be sued by copyright holders, but still wanted the company not to sign licensing deals with record labels because “they need to be able to make this product without restrictions.”
Suno’s hateful content problem mirrors problems experienced by other digital companies in the music space in recent years, as well as companies that provide artificial intelligence technology to the public.
Multiple investigations into music streaming services have uncovered hateful content on these platforms. 2017, Spotify The groups’ tracks were removed after music uploaded by some white supremacist groups (as defined by the Southern Poverty Law Center) was discovered on the streaming platform.
However, removing this content from music streaming platforms has proven to be a game of whack-a-mole.
In 2020, a BBC investigation found more racist content on and on Spotify apple music, Diesel and YouTube Musicincluding songs featuring “excerpts from Hitler’s speeches, calls for an ‘Aryan’ start over, and references to white power.”
In 2022, an ADL report found “40 white supremacist artists on Spotify.” ADL said that although the platform updated its rules after ADL reported extremist content on Spotify, the rules “do not appear to be strictly enforced.”
Artificial intelligence technology is sometimes susceptible to such problems. Perhaps most famously, in 2016, Microsoft shut down the chatbot Tay after users managed to manipulate it into expressing hateful comments within hours of its release.
On Tuesday (June 18), the United Nations cultural and educational organization UNESCO issued a report warning that artificial intelligence could be used to “distort the historical record of the Holocaust and promote anti-Semitism.”
“Both ChatGPT and Google’s Bard produced content detailing Holocaust-related events that never happened. ChatGPT completely fabricated the concept of a ‘drowning holocaust’ campaign, in which Nazis drowned Jews in rivers and lakes, while Bader then falsified eyewitness quotes to support a distorted account of the Holocaust, UNESCO said.
In its report on Suno, the ADL made a number of recommendations to address hateful content on its platform, including clearer terms of service, investing in trust and safety staff, building “discourage mechanisms” into Suno, and making public text alerts Can be used to “demystify some of the coded language in the lyrics in question.”global music business
