SZA Claims AI Has Been Trained On More Than 200 of Her Songs, Including Unreleased Music
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Published on 22/06/2026 – 14:00 GMT+2 Grammy-winning American singer-songwriter SZA has criticized AI and the artists who “support this degenerate shit” after discovering that more than 200 of her songs have been used to train AI. ADVERTISEMENT Posting on Instagram Stories, the 36-year-old artist behind hits like ‘Kill Bill’ and ‘Luther’ with Kendrick Lamar shared the results of a search for her name in an AI music database. The search apparent…
SZA Claims AI Has Been Trained On More Than 200 of Her Songs, Including Unreleased Music
SZA claims AI has created music using countless songs of hers. On her Instagram Story, she claimed that AI has been trained on 238 of her songs, including unreleased music. That same Story expresses her disdain for AI’s presence in the music industry and those who champion it. Separately, she mentioned producer Diplo, who she alleges is an equity holder in AI music-generation platform Suno and is training it on “the best and brightest black mind…
What is behind the allegations of SZA?SZA has expressed itself clearly against the use of artificial intelligence in music in several Instagram posts. The singer described AI-generated sounds as problematic and explicitly accused Diplo of being involved in the development of appropriate technologies. She published the statements on Sunday, June 21, via her private Instagram account "notmusicatalliswear" in which she claimed that Diplo held...
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