# Google Trained Its Music AI on 44M Clips Despite Building a System to Stop Exactly This - Date: 2026-03-25 - Category: Artificial Intelligence Indie artists filed a 118-page lawsuit against Google on March 6, alleging the company trained its Lyria 3 music generation model on 44 million copyrighted clips and 280,000 hours of music pulled from YouTube — without permission, without compensation, and with full knowledge of the legal exposure. ---