Music labels' AI lawsuits create copyright puzzle for courts. Country musician Tift Merritt's most popular song on Spotify, "Traveling Alone,", opens new tab is a ballad with lyrics evoking solitude and the open road.
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Prompted by Reuters to make "an Americana song in the style of Tift Merritt," the artificial intelligence music website Udio instantly generated "Holy Grounds,", a ballad with lyrics about "driving old backroads" while "watching the fields and skies shift and sway.

"Merritt, a Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter, told Reuters that the "imitation" Udio created "doesn't make the cut for any album of mine."

"This is a great demonstration of the extent to which this technology is not transformative at all," Merritt said. "It's stealing."