{"id":3083,"date":"2026-06-20T22:46:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T18:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/the-atlantic-created-a-searchable-database-of-the-music-used-to-train-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T22:46:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T18:46:48","slug":"the-atlantic-created-a-searchable-database-of-the-music-used-to-train-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/the-atlantic-created-a-searchable-database-of-the-music-used-to-train-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"The Atlantic created a searchable database of the music used to train AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A smiling computer surrounded by music notes.\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Cath Virginia \/ The Verge\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/STK467_AI_MUSIC_CVirginia_B.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>Atlantic<\/em> reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/2026\/06\/ai-music-generators-suno-google-udio\/687485\/?gift=XykDc_qyxjjKAvqueifCeVueQlyDmjxACfclHl3tdg0&amp;utm_source=copy-link&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">four datasets<\/a> of music being used to train <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/906896\/sunos-copyright-ai-music-covers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AI models<\/a> and made them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/category\/ai-watchdog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fully searchable<\/a> for the public. Two of the sets are absolutely enormous at 12 million and 9 million tracks. The other two are much smaller, but still represent a significant amount of training data at over 100,000 songs each.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">According to Reisner, the sets have been downloaded thousands of times and, while it&rsquo;s impossible to know exactly who has used them, <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2301.11325\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/html\/2407.14358\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stability<\/a> have both confirmed they have in research papers. Some of the sources, like the <a href=\"https:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Free Music Archive<\/a> dataset, are free to stream for personal use but re \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/953183\/the-atlantic-searchable-database-music-ai-training-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}