--- title: Suno AI music was trained on 2M+ scraped YouTube songs description: Leaked source code from Suno, a major AI music generator, reveals it scraped over 2 million YouTube clips, tens of thousands of hours from Deezer and Genius,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/suno-ai-music-was-trained-on-2m-scraped-youtube-songs-nxkpsy2to twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Suno AI music was trained on 2M+ scraped YouTube songs | daily.dev og:description: Leaked source code from Suno, a major AI music generator, reveals it scraped over 2 million YouTube clips, tens of thousands of hours from Deezer and Genius,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/suno-ai-music-was-trained-on-2m-scraped-youtube-songs-nxkpsy2to og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/nxKPsY2tO.png og:image:alt: Suno AI music was trained on 2M+ scraped YouTube songs og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Suno AI music was trained on 2M+ scraped YouTube songs **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Leaked source code from Suno, a major AI music generator, reveals it scraped over 2 million YouTube clips, tens of thousands of hours from Deezer and Genius, and 420,000 podcasts to train its model. The leak came from a hacker who breached the company in November 2025, obtaining employee credentials via the Shai-Hulud worm and accessing customer emails, phone numbers, and Stripe records. Suno downplayed the breach and did not notify affected users. The company defends its training practices as fair use, but the exposed code confirms the RIAA's allegations of stream-ripping from YouTube while bypassing its copy protections. The disclosure arrives as some music labels settle licensing deals with AI firms while others, like Sony, await a pivotal fair-use ruling. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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