Hack Reveals Suno Trained on 2 Million YouTube Music Clips as Deezer Weighs Action
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Updated · Variety · Jul 16
Hack Reveals Suno Trained on 2 Million YouTube Music Clips as Deezer Weighs Action
3 articles · Updated · Variety · Jul 16
Summary
404 Media reported hacked Suno files showed the AI music generator ingested 2,013,545 YouTube Music clips and thousands of hours from Deezer, Genius and other sites.
Source-code instructions listed scraping targets including “genius_hq, youtube_music, freesound, jamendo, imp, deezer” and told systems to filter out “non-music,” offering a rare look at Suno’s training pipeline.
The hacker also accessed a customer list with emails, phone numbers and Stripe payment details, though Suno said the November 2025 breach was quickly contained and did not compromise sensitive user data.
Deezer said training data for generative AI should require approval and fair compensation and that it is assessing options, while Suno repeated its fair-use defense and said it blocks prompts that mimic existing artists or songs.
The disclosure adds evidence to copyright suits from Universal, Sony and the RIAA over Suno’s use of internet-scraped music, even after Warner settled and began working with the company on a new model.