In case you're forgetting, the IFPI - the international organization representing record labels - has its roots in Italian Fascism. So, yes, record labels should never be considered heroes by anyone. They're extortionist, rent-seeking organizations. They act like a sort of institutionalized and legal Mafia for the music industry. Nevertheless...:
"AI is cutting a swath across a number of creative industries — with AI-generated book covers, the Chicago Sun-Times publishing an AI-generated list of books that don’t exist, and AI-generated stories at CNET under real authors’ bylines. The music industry is no exception. But while many of these fields are mired in questions about whether AI models are illegally trained on pirated data, the music industry is coming at the issue from a position of unusual strength: the benefits of years of case law backing copyright protections, a regimented licensing system, and a handful of powerful companies that control the industry.
Record labels have chosen to fight several AI companies on copyright law, and they have a strong hand to play.
Historically, whatever the tech industry inflicts on the music industry will eventually happen to every other creative industry, too. If that’s true here, then all the AI companies that ganked copyrighted material are in a lot of trouble."
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/695290/suno-udio-ai-music-legal-copyright-riaa