“Until the major labels go through their lawsuits, there’s no way for artists or labels to fight back”: A massive music dataset is allegedly allowing AI to train on 12 million+ songs without permission

// Originally on MusicTech 19 June 2026

“Found songs of mine, and I'm not famous,” one Redditor writes after seeing their track among 12+ million tracks in an unlawful AI dataset. The post “Until the major labels go through their lawsuits, there’s no way for artists or labels to fight back”: A massive music dataset is allegedly allowing AI to train on 12 million+ songs without permission appeared first on MusicTech .

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