Music software startup Suno accused the world's largest record labels of using copyright lawsuits to fend off competition from music written by generative AI, according to a Thursday court filing.

Roberto Neri, CEO of The Ivors Academy, said: “Suno’s new tool is the latest example of unethical AI firms stealing the work, art and livelihoods of lyricists, songwriters and composers.

Suno, which means (Hindi for “listen”) was launched in 2022 by former OpenAI engineers and uses neural networks that have ...