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SoundCloud changes policies to allow AI training on user content
- SoundCloud quietly updated its terms of service in February 2024 to permit using user-uploaded content for AI training on its platform.
- This change sparked backlash after Ed Newton-Rex publicly highlighted the clause, causing concern over the lack of explicit opt-in consent for AI training.
- SoundCloud's president, Eliah Seton, and company representatives have emphasized that artist content has not been utilized to develop generative AI models; instead, AI technologies are applied solely to enhance features such as recommendations, search functions, and playlist creation.
- SoundCloud agreed to eliminate the contentious AI provision and introduce an opt-in approach, ensuring they will not utilize users' material to develop generative AI models that replicate or imitate their voice, music, or likeness without receiving clear, affirmative permission.
- This incident highlights the importance of transparent AI policies as SoundCloud pledges to keep artists informed while exploring AI applications that support creators ethically.
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SoundCloud Backtracks on AI and Changes Policies After Artist Outrage
SoundCloud has altered its platform policies to require opt-ins for training generative AI models with artists' music following widespread user backlash, the company announced today in a letter from its CEO. On Friday, Futurism broke the story that SoundCloud had quietly updated its Terms of Use (TOU) in February 2024 with language allowing it to train AI using users' uploaded content, which could include uploaded music. The updated terms — whic…
Soundcloud changed its AI policy so it can train on users' audio
If you don't want AI to scrape your music to learn, then it might be time to leave Soundcloud. The music streaming platform quietly updated its terms of service sometime last year to allow AI to train on audio uploaded to Soundcloud, TechCrunch reported this week. “You explicitly agree that your Content may be used to inform, train, develop or serve as input to artificial intelligence or machine intelligence technologies or services as part of a…
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