File photo taken on Nov. 25, 2024 shows the company logo of Sony Group Corp. in Minato Ward, Tokyo. (Kyodo)

Sony develops technology to trace origin of AI-made music

23.02.2026 14:45

Sony Group Corp. has developed technology to identify the original source of music generated by artificial intelligence in a bid to protect the rights of creators, amid growing concern about the unauthorized use of copyrighted works in AI training, El.kz reports citing Kyodo News.

With the new technology, composers, songwriters and publishers will be able to demand compensation from AI developers for the unauthorized use of their works, according to Sony Group.

Sony's technology can extract data from an underlying AI model and compare generated music with its original sources, quantifying their contribution to facilitate the collection of revenues.

A spokesperson for the entertainment unit of the Japanese electronics group said, "We want to contribute to creating a system in which creators are properly compensated."