We Were Right About AI Music. A Hacker Just Proved It.

For a while now a bunch of us have been saying the same thing: AI music companies trained on our work without asking. Suno just got hacked, their internal source code leaked, and now we can actually see where they got the music. I go through exactly what the leak shows, the 2 million songs pulled from YouTube alone, Suno's own words from a 2024 court filing, and what it means if you're an independent artist with music on any of these platforms. // CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 01:00 The Hack 02:01 What Suno Actually Took 03:43 They Already Admitted It in 2024 05:15 "It's Just Code Comments" 06:16 The Four Types of AI Music Users 10:41 Suno's Response 11:12 The Lawsuits 12:13 I Didn't Want to Be Right // SOURCES • 404 Media: https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-suno-ai-music-generator-scraped-youtube-deezer-and-genius/ • The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/966072/suno-ai-music-training-scraping-youtube-hack • TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/hack-suggests-ai-music-generator-suno-scraped-youtube-for-training-data/ • Suno's 2024 "fair use" admission - The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/2/24211842/ai-music-riaa-copyright-lawsuit-suno-udio-fair-use • RIAA stream-ripping lawsuit update - The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/news/782448/riaa-suno-ai-lawsuit-update-stream-ripping-youtube • Warner settles + partners with Suno - Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/suno-warner-music-group-ai-music-settlement-lawsuit-1235472868/ • Suno CEO on making music - 20VC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0YL83U5VWk // CAMERA GEAR Sony A7S III: https://amzn.to/3OZAk42 Sony FE 20mm F1.8: https://amzn.to/3uxUHx2 Sony FE 24-70mm F.28 G Master: https://amzn.to/3uwQidy Neweer 18" LED Panels: https://amzn.to/3yPJ9aS ATEM Mini Pro ISO: https://amzn.to/40eDSXH // AUDIO GEAR Yamaha EAD10: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/4GLbz9 Behringer X32 Rack: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/3JRnBK Kick Out: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/APYD9K Kick Front: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/EExmLP Snare Top: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/VxjWE6 Overheads: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/JKYaG2 Tom Mics: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/JKjG9R // SOCIALS 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nickcesarzdrums 📸 Instagram: @nickcesarzdrums 🐦 X (Twitter): @nickcesarz 🎧 My band: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7xSEWLsywYbocdtt3xsQsU The links in the video description are affiliated. If you click a link and make a purchase, I get a small commission. #AImusic #Suno #musicindustry