Suno to Add Watermarks to AI-Generated Music

Suno, a prominent AI music generator, has revealed its intention to implement watermarks on all audio outputs produced by its models. This initiative, shared in a blog post by CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman, seeks to adhere to "emerging industry standards" for identifying AI-generated content. As streaming services such as Spotify face an influx of AI-created music, distinguishing between human and machine-made tracks has become challenging for listeners. With the introduction of watermarking, platforms will have the ability to label content as AI-generated or completely block it. Shulman did not clarify whether an in-house solution or an existing one like Google's SynthID would be utilized. Google has started licensing SynthID, which has already marked 60,000 years of audio from its Gemini models and over 100 billion images and videos. This announcement signifies a wider industry movement towards greater transparency regarding AI-generated material.