Microsoft Copilot Teams Up with Suno for Innovative Music Composition
Microsoft AI-driven chatbot, Copilot, is taking a creative leap with its latest integration
Microsoft partnering with the GenAI music app Suno to introduce a groundbreaking music creation feature.
Users can now prompt Copilot with requests such as “Craft a pop song centered around family adventures,” and through the Suno plug-in, witness their musical ideas come to life. Suno, utilizing a single sentence, has the ability to generate entire songs, complete with lyrics, instrumentals, and even singing voices.
Accessing this collaborative experience is seamless for Copilot users. By launching Microsoft Edge and visiting Copilot.Microsoft.com, users can log in with their Microsoft account and enable the Suno plug-in. Alternatively, they can click on the Suno logo labeled “Make music with Suno.”
In a blog post on the Microsoft Bing blog, it is stated, “We believe that this partnership will open new horizons for creativity and fun, making music creation accessible to everyone. This experience will begin rolling out to users starting today, ramping up in the coming weeks.”
The realm of GenAI-driven music creation has seen increased interest from both tech giants and startups. In a similar vein, Google AI lab DeepMind and YouTube collaborated to release Lyria, a GenAI model for music, and Dream Track, a limited-access tool for crafting AI-generated tunes in YouTube Shorts. Meta has shared several AI music generation experiments, while Stability AI and Riffusion have introduced platforms and apps for crafting songs and effects from prompts.
However, ethical and legal concerns surrounding AI-synthesized music remain largely unresolved. AI algorithms learning from existing music to reproduce similar effects has raised discomfort among artists and GenAI users, particularly when consent and compensation are lacking. Stability AI’s GenAI audio lead resigned, asserting that GenAI “exploits creators,” and the Grammys have excluded fully AI-generated songs from awards consideration.
The controversy also extends to issues of fair use, as GenAI companies argue they are exempt from compensating artists for works in the public domain, despite copyright concerns. While the legal landscape is uncharted, Suno, unlike some GenAI tools, doesn’t disclose its AI training data source on its website and doesn’t restrict prompts like “in the style of [artist].”
Despite claims by Suno to block certain prompts and prevent users from uploading lyrics to existing songs for covers, the legal status of GenAI music remains uncertain. Homemade tracks utilizing GenAI to replicate authentic sounds have gained popularity, prompting music labels to raise intellectual property concerns and flagging them to streaming platforms. However, as tool creators migrate to underground platforms, clarity on the legal status of GenAI music may emerge through court decisions or proposed legislation. Recently introduced Senate bills aim to provide artists, including musicians, with recourse when their digital likenesses, including musical styles, are used without permission.
