Guitar company D’Addario admits that AI music was used in a promotional video
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Source: The Verge (AI)August 12, 2026
Summary
Music company D'Addario initially denied using AI-generated music in a promotional video but later admitted it had used Suno (an AI music generation tool) after weeks of public controversy and mounting evidence. The company offered several false explanations, including blaming low-quality exports and audio processing software, before finally editing its original post to acknowledge the use of generative AI (software that creates new content based on patterns learned from training data).
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Attack SophisticationTrivial
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Original source: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/978982/daddario-guitar-ai-music-suno
First tracked: August 12, 2026 at 02:02 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 85%