AI music startup Suno announced several major changes Thursday aimed at cracking down on the misuse of songs generated on its platform.

Co-founder and CEO Mikey Shulman wrote in a blog post that the company plans to introduce audio watermarking and fingerprinting technology that will make it easier for music platforms to identify and trace songs created with Suno.

Suno will also introduce a new download policy intended to limit usersâ ability to mass-distribute songs on streaming platforms.

The changes appear to primarily target schemes in which users generate hundreds and sometimes even thousands of AI songs, upload them to streaming services, and then use bots to repeatedly play the tracks to collect fraudulent royalties.

Earlier this year, a North Carolina man pleaded guilty to using hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs and billions of fake streams to collect more than $8 million in royalties.

Suno also updated its community guidelines to make clearer that it prohibits scams, spam, fake engagement, presenting deceptive audio as authentic, recreations of existing songs, and the use of copyrighted material or a real personâs voice or likeness without permission.

Still, the company is trying to walk a fine line between aggressively combating fraud and calling all AI-generated music outright slop.

âThese tools are designed to be durable and resistant to tampering, without affecting the listening experience,â wrote Shulman. âThey are also not intended to pass judgment on whether a song is good, meaningful, or sufficiently human.â

He added that it should be up to artists and platforms to decide whether to disclose that a song was made using AI.

In a somewhat ironic example of Sunoâs efforts to assert that AI music isn’t all slop, the company recently announced plans to let users make copies of their AI-generated songs on vinyl.

The new safeguards arrive as Suno faces legal battles across several fronts.

Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment are suing the company, accusing it of using copyrighted recordings without permission to train its AI models. Warner Music Group, which was initially part of the lawsuit, settled with Suno last year and reached an agreement allowing participating artists and songwriters to opt into approving the use of their music and likeness in AI-generated songs.Â

Just last week, a court in Germany ruled that Suno violated the copyrights of musicians represented by GEMA, the countryâs music-licensing agency. Suno disputed the ruling and is considering its options, including an appeal.

The company is separately facing a proposed class-action lawsuit in Massachusetts over a data breach that allegedly exposed the personal information of more than 55 million users.

404 Media also reported that the breach revealed that Suno scraped YouTube, Deezer, Genius, and other online sources to train its models.

Suno did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Meanwhile, Spotify itself appears to have gone all-in on AI. The music streaming platform and Universal recently announced a tool that will allow users to create AI-generated covers and remixes using music from participating artists.