{"id":243560,"date":"2026-07-15T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/source-code-hack-reveals-sunos-ai-was-trained-on-millions-of-youtube-songs\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:45:12","slug":"source-code-hack-reveals-sunos-ai-was-trained-on-millions-of-youtube-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/source-code-hack-reveals-sunos-ai-was-trained-on-millions-of-youtube-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Source Code Hack Reveals Suno&#8217;s AI Was Trained on Millions of YouTube Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/suno-ai-music-source-code-hack-training-news\/\">Source Code Hack Reveals Suno&#8217;s AI Was Trained on Millions of YouTube Songs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/suno-ai-music-source-code-hack-training-news\/\">https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/suno-ai-music-source-code-hack-training-news\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-15 15:43:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnet.com\">www.cnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hack of Suno&#8217;s source code reveals that the AI company trained its models by scraping massive amounts of music and lyrics from various platforms, including YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, and stock music libraries.<\/li>\n<li>Suno&#8217;s hackers accessed over 2 million clips from YouTube Music, 17,000 hours from Genius, 12,000 hours from Deezer, and 62,000 hours from Pond5.<\/li>\n<li>Suno denies compromising sensitive personal information and insists that the outdated source code used in the breach is no longer in use, but the revelations confirm some allegations of copyright infringement.<\/li>\n<li>Many copyright holders and record labels argue that Suno\u2019s use of their content without consent violates copyright protections, despite Suno&#8217;s claims of fair use.<\/li>\n<li>Ongoing lawsuit and controversy highlight the contentious relationship between creative industries and technology companies regarding the ethical use of copyrighted material for AI training data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source Code Hack Reveals Suno&#8217;s AI Was Trained on Millions of YouTube Songs https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/suno-ai-music-source-code-hack-training-news\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/b2882032cd03b4196603b35e7c10dfe643f795b2\/hub\/2026\/07\/15\/c18e3420-d381-4ded-aa3a-492284645b77\/adobestock-1906623733-editorial-use-only.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243562,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243560\/revisions\/243562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}