Warner Music Group (WMG) settled a lawsuit with an AI company in exchange for a piece of the action. The label announced<\/a> on Wednesday that it had resolved a 2024 lawsuit against AI music creation platform Udio<\/a>. As part of the deal, Udio gets to license Warner’s catalog for an upcoming music creation service. This follows a similar settlement<\/a> between Universal Music Group and Udio, announced last month.<\/p>\n Udio’s service will allow subscribers to create, listen to and discover AI-generated music trained on licensed work. You\u2019ll be able to generate new songs, remixes and covers using favorite artists’ voices or compositions. The boundaries between human creation and an algorithm’s approximation of it are about to grow murkier. Not in terms of artistic quality, but it will be based on what proliferates online.<\/p>\n WMG is framing the deal as a win for artists, who will \u2014 if they choose to opt in \u2014 gain a new revenue stream. Ahead of the service\u2019s launch, Udio will roll out “expanded protections and other measures designed to safeguard the rights of artists and songwriters.”<\/p>\n So, the settlement does at least appear to reassert some control over artists\u2019 work. What the normalization of robot-made music will do for society’s collective tastes is another question.<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/1WLGKMcu2..9iam_9082mQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY0MQ--\/https:\/\/d29szjachogqwa.cloudfront.net\/images\/user-uploaded\/mohammad-metri-1oKxSKSOowE-unsplash.jpg\"\/)