Yes. Ben E. King has 164 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 164

songs in LAION-DISCO-12M under the artist name

A list of 12 million songs on YouTube Music, gathered by walking artist pages, that LAION published in 2024 for training general music models.

Including There's No Place to Hide, Show Me the Way, First Taste of Love

Listed under the artist name 164 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

Matched exactly: this YouTube Music artist id is the one the dataset lists these songs under.

There's No Place to Hide

Listed as Ben E. King – There's No Place to Hide (What Is Soul?) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video 16k1nCmRWeg · row 16k1nCmRWeg

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Show Me the Way

Listed as Ben E. King – Show Me the Way (Soul Classics) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video 2dpHI645ZZ0 · row 2dpHI645ZZ0

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First Taste of Love

Listed as Ben E. King – First Taste of Love (Soul Classics) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video Ckz6nyjgy8U · row Ckz6nyjgy8U

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Sometimes I Wonder

Listed as Ben King – Sometimes I Wonder (Save the Last Dance for Me) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video ILLfd9nG62s · row ILLfd9nG62s

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It's All Over

Listed as Ben E. King – It's All Over (Ben E. King & The Drifters) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video NYsYB3BKMN8 · row NYsYB3BKMN8

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Amor B

Listed as Ben E. King – Amor B (Stand by Me) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video NsNvbei8N8U · row NsNvbei8N8U

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Supernatural Thing, Pt. 2

Listed as Ben E. King – Supernatural Thing, Pt. 2 (Supernatural Thing) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video UqkT-XN3w5g · row UqkT-XN3w5g

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Granada

Listed as Ben E. King – Granada (Spanish Harlem) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video V4OSJAETyu8 · row V4OSJAETyu8

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The Hermit of Misty Mountain

Listed as Ben E. King – The Hermit of Misty Mountain (Don't Play That Song) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video VukaDXoEObc · row VukaDXoEObc

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The Hermit of Misty Mountain (Mono)

Listed as Ben E. King – The Hermit of Misty Mountain (Mono) (Don't Play That Song (Mono)) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video Xk57A29fbQE · row Xk57A29fbQE

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Stand By Me

Listed as Ben E. King – Stand By Me (Soul Classics) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video fQJJlxtTn-E · row fQJJlxtTn-E

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Get in a Hurry

Listed as Ben E. King – Get in a Hurry (What Is Soul?) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video kY4scF9MzEM · row kY4scF9MzEM

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I'm Standing By

Listed as Ben E. King – I'm Standing By (Seven Letters) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video qyRWTaWhEJg · row qyRWTaWhEJg

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Yes

Listed as Ben E. King – Yes (Don't Play That Song) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video wUxx9UYIWks · row wUxx9UYIWks

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What this means

Last reviewed 2026-09-24.

Presence in a public research dataset shows that a clip of your recording was listed by academic or industry researchers as material for building or testing audio models. It does not by itself show which commercial products, if any, used the clip. The legal picture is moving. On 31 July 2026 the Regional Court of Munich I ruled in GEMA's case against Suno (case 42 O 763/25) that reproducing works for training, holding them in a model in retrievable form, and generating similar outputs can each infringe copyright under German and EU law; the judgment is not final and can be appealed. In the United States, Warner Music Group settled its claims against Suno on 25 November 2025 with a licensing deal, while the parallel claims by Universal and Sony were still pending at that point. Since then BMG (12 August 2026) and Believe/TuneCore (8 September 2026) have signed opt-in licensing deals with Suno.

What you can do

3 routes. None is a guarantee.

UK, PRS members. Send PRS for Music your report and ask what collective or licensing route covers your works.
- PRS for Music and Artificial Intelligence, Version 1 (October 2025), 2025-10-01
- PRS for Music: AI and music copyright, 2026-09-24
Germany, GEMA members. GEMA won a first-instance ruling against Suno on 31 July 2026 and has a licensing model. Ask how they apply to your repertoire.
- GEMA: Suno AI and OpenAI, GEMA sues for fair compensation, 2025-01-21
- DLA Piper: GEMA v Suno, Munich Regional Court judgment of 31 July 2026, 2026-08-28
- Music Business Worldwide: Germany's GEMA launches AI Charter, 2024-11-05
Signed to Warner, BMG or Believe/TuneCore. Each has an opt-in licensing deal with Suno. Ask your label what opting in or out means for you and whether any settlement money reaches artists.
- Music Business Worldwide: Warner Music Group settles with Suno, 2025-11-25
- Music Ally: Suno signs another music licensing deal, with BMG, 2026-08-12
- Music Business Worldwide: Suno inks global deal with Believe, 2026-09-08

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These pages report where identifiers from public research datasets point. Presence in a dataset is a fact about the dataset, not a claim about the channel or artist, and says nothing about what any company did with the material. If you are this artist and want this page removed, see removals.