Doja Cat fans assumed they’d stumbled upon a trove of new music when a slew of supposedly unreleased songs from the artist hit their X timelines earlier this week. Various accounts posted the “leaked songs” and claimed they were scrapped from Vie, the rapper’s fifth studio album, released last year, and its predecessor, Scarlet. At least a dozen songs surfaced in just 24 hours — but Doja Cat denies any of them are real.
“All of those songs that are leaking that they’re saying are mine are AI. None of it is me,” she wrote on X. “Really disappointed in everyone thinking that’s me :/ Fuck AI for real.”
The posts featured songs titled “Loon1e,” “Dead Inside,” “Ball & Chain,” and more. A few have been removed from the social media platform due to reports of copyright infringement. But in the time it took to take them down, the posts racked up thousands of likes and views. “I didn’t want to hear the leaks but ‘Loon1y’ got me hooked,” one fan posted, thanking the person who shared them for “making my day better even if they are AI.”
These AI replications of Doja Cat’s lyrical and melodic style are precisely what SZA hoped to warn artists, and specifically Black musicians, about in her own critique of AI this past weekend. “If your a musician and you support this degenerate shit?” SZA wrote on Instagram after discovering more than 200 of her songs were used to train generative AI models. “Your disgusting and there’s NOTHING YOU COULD EVER SAY TO ME TO MAKE THIS OKAY. I hope u have the life u deserve.”
She continued to call out “vultures” who are using services like Suno to “train it on the best and brightest Black minds of writers and producers,” writing, “We make up 13% of the American population yet influence the world w our sound and perspective. I AINT HEARD A WHITE AI SONG YET. We have no protection in legislature medical or creative. The easiest to steal from. DO NOT GIVE AWAY YOUR VIBRANIUM !!! DO NOT TRAIN AI W YOUR GENIUS.”
Suno was on the receiving end of an especially scathing post from the producer Kenneth Blume, or Kenny Beats, in recent days, as well. “You are true losers. Whoever’s running this account, and your boss, and their bosses boss,” he wrote on X. “I can’t imagine going into work daily knowing you are stealing from countless struggling musicians. I can’t imagine being proud to earn a paycheck obliterating the work and dreams of artists. Get fucked, every single one of you.”