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- An AI-based artist received a $ 3 million record deal.
- A human artist uses AI platform sons to generate personality.
- Creative industries continue to sue AI companies.
An AI-composer personality run by a human R&B artist has got a $ 3 million record deal-AI companies targets encroaching creative industries amidst many cases.
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Telisha “Nikki” Jones, who is behind the AI-artist Zania Monet, accepted the record deal, which is with Hallwood mediaShe combines elements of her real-life song writing abilities with AI-rented tone, images and music production.
Jones AI Music Generation Uses Startup Suno – which is Currently being sued By the US recording industry (RIAA) – to create the music of Monet. This landscape presents two sides of a coin: While Riaa claims that Suno steals audio from YouTube video, bypassing legal protection, others are using the platform to achieve stardom that they did not access otherwise.
AI music and musicians
As BoardJones writes all the songs of Monet and takes “complete ownership” of the production credit. However, Murphy admitted in the billboard that Jones “Vocal Beast” is not Monet, although it is not clear how responsible for the stage of Sano to Monet’s Vocals.
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Monet first impressed the chart during the week of September 20, 2025, when his song “How is this is mees to” reached the number 1 on R&B Digital Song Sales, Bilboard Rights. The same song enjoys Tikok popularity, which secures more than 80,000 posts and 39th position on the top 50 music charts of Tikok.
On tiktok, Zania Monet’s page Displays his 322,000 followers, prefers more than a million, and in his song AI-borne video recording booths, studios, apartments and sporting Arenas. Lively colors, highly smooth skin, strangely chopped clips, and usually the supernatural valley stretch immediately read as AI-Janit for a trained eye. However, there is no mention of AI on Monet’s page.
In the comments, some users wonder when other dedicated fans will realize that the artist is AI-generated, while others say how, despite being sung by the AI artist, Monet’s songs touch him deeply, gives them a song that reflects his life experiences. Others are finding out through those comments that Monet is not a real person. Simply say: Some people care, some people do not, and others have no clue.
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According to the Billboard interview with Murphy, Monet plans to use more human producers on his upcoming music and is planning his first live performance, although it is not clear how. Hallwood Media has also signed a recording agreement with the top-streaming manufacturer of IMOLIVER, Suno.
Case against AI companies
The use of AI in creative places has been an ongoing debate as the progress of technology began encroaching artistic professionals. Visual artists, film directors, writers and music artists have expressed irritation in artificial intelligence companies to train their image, video, language and voice models on current works of art. A lot of cases have been filed – almost always on legal basis of copyright violations.
Riaa’s trial against Sano alleged that the platform has been the “stream-red” song from artists on YouTube to train its AI voice model, a procedure that includes the voices of the existing artists and convert them into downloadable files. The suit represents labels such as Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment.
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According to RIA’s trial, stream-ripping illegally uses copyright content from artists such as Maria Kerry and Temption. Perhaps that’s why some Monet’s commentators heard a mixture of the voices of the current artists in their recording.
Somewhere else, New York Times sued Openai For unpublished use of articles to train large language models, and Disney and Universal sued Midzorney For unpublished use of your films and characters to train image manufacturing models. Anthropic prosecuted with just three writers.
Individual artists have sued other AI companies to train the model to use their work as well, and the legal opinion is moving more slowly than the development of technology. Most defense lies in fair use, while artists and companies claim literary theft and copyright violations.
why it matters
If AI can make a record deal, who is the benefit?
At least, Jones is a public musician behind Monet’s personality. But an R&B star whose voice, image, and promotional materials are AI-Janit, compared to a popular AI-Janit (and somewhat less transparent), Lil Mikela,
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Like Zania Monet, Lil Mikela signed a million dollar deal with a talent agency, and there are there Real people behind her digital personalityThe studio behind Lil Mikela and her investors is paid to Money Lil Mikela with brand partnerships and advertisements. But many questions – and some answers – arise from asking the same about Monet.
Certainly, Jones, his manager, manufacturer and other studios personnel get its $ 3 million record deal cuts, but can the Suno or AI platform demand a cut responsible for the digital appearance of Monet? Technically, Suno and other AI platforms created Monet’s voice and equality, so, if they fit their money success, how, what, what, what they fit at all?
For some people, the AI-acting artist’s records indicate innovation in the music industry, which gives opportunity to people without connections, money or traditional beauty. For others, like the popular R&B artist Kehalani, it takes away from real people who dedicate their lives and talents to their art. artist Expressed disdain For AI-related music and to offer record deals to people using it.
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It will be interesting to see how far Monet’s career will go without media performance and live performance, and how to develop track recording can be under the purview of technology.
“AI in Art” conversation also forces companies to believe how much they want to include AI in their business model. Although the total use of AI is considered taboo to write articles, create artwork, or generate short speed drawings, completely leaving AI from creative practices with an archaic train idea?
Or, does the debate boil out who uses AI within its creative practices? Perhaps the issue is that the Publishers, artists, studios and record labels must have the option to lend to their existing work, rather than that there is no to say.
The legal road to use generic AI in creative practices has already been longer, and there are no signs to shorten it soon.
