Step-by-step
How to Check if AI Used Your Music
You cannot prove what a specific AI company trained on. You can check whether your music sits in the public data they draw from, and whether you are positioned to act. Here is how, in five steps.
Before you start
The goal is not to prove an AI company used your song. It is to find the songs that are both exposed in AI data and unregistered, because that is the gap you can actually close. The whole process is free and takes a few minutes.
The five steps
- 1.
Gather your titles and names
List your song titles and the artist or songwriter names they are credited under. A distributor export from DistroKid, TuneCore, or CD Baby works, or you can pull it straight from Spotify.
- 2.
Run the free AI training-data check
Search by name, paste your list of titles, or import an artist or playlist from Spotify. Your catalog is cross-referenced against roughly 13.8 million tracks in the public datasets that circulate among AI developers (LAION-DISCO-12M and the Free Music Archive). This is free for every song, no signup.
- 3.
Read your exposure
See which songs appear in the AI datasets and which do not. A match means the track sits in data AI developers can access. It is a signal of exposure, not proof a specific model trained on it.
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Check registration at the same time
The same pass shows which of those songs are registered with the U.S. Copyright Office. The worst case is a song that is exposed in AI data and unregistered: possibly used, with no standing to act.
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Register what is exposed and unregistered
Prioritize the songs that show up in the data but are not registered. Registration costs $65 per work at copyright.gov and is what gives you a claim under both the proposed CLEAR Act and copyright infringement law.
Why both checks happen at once
Knowing your music is in AI data is only half the picture. The half that decides whether you can do anything is registration. The proposed CLEAR Act would let registered owners pursue penalties when AI companies fail to disclose their work, and copyright infringement statutory damages run up to $150,000 per work, but both require a registered copyright. So the check answers both questions in a single pass: is it exposed, and is it registered.
Frequently asked
Can any tool prove that AI used my specific song?
No. No tool can confirm what a specific company trained on, because the major AI music developers have not disclosed their training data and it is being litigated. What you can verify is whether your music appears in the public datasets those developers draw from, and whether you are registered so you could act if it was used.
How long does the check take?
A name or single-title search returns in under two seconds. A full catalog import runs in a pass. The whole five-step process above takes a few minutes for most artists.
Do I need to pay to check?
No. The AI training-data check and unlimited name search are free. The paid layer is the full per-song copyright registration breakdown (the $10 Audit Pack) and tools for labels and publishers, not the AI check itself.
Check your own music free
See which of your songs appear in the public AI training datasets, and which are registered with the U.S. Copyright Office. Free, no signup.