Artificial intelligence has been creeping into music over the last few years, and at first, many people didn’t know exactly what to make of it. Was it a new tool? A shortcut? A threat? A gimmick? Depending on who you asked, AI music either sounded like the future or like the beginning of a major creative problem.

Lately, though, more artists have made it clear where they stand: they are not rocking with AI being used to copy voices, train models on their catalogs without permission or flood streaming platforms with music that sounds like it came from human artists but didn’t. The issue got even louder after SZA recently called out AI music after learning that hundreds of her songs were reportedly included in training data used to generate AI music models. According to reports, SZA urged Black artists not to hand over their creativity to AI and criticized the way Black musicians, writers and producers can be mined for influence without proper consent, credit or compensation.

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