SoundCloud backtracks on 'too broad' AI phrases of service

SoundCloud is updating its Phrases of Use once more after angering users with language round AI that even the corporate now describes as "too broad." The main points of the change had been shared in an open letter from SoundCloud CEO Eliah Seton affirming the corporate's dedication to artists.

Particularly, SoundCloud's Phrases of Use now forbids the corporate from utilizing content material uploaded to SoundCloud to coach generative AI that replicates an artist with out their consent. Because it's phrased within the new phrases SoundCloud is rolling out within the subsequent few weeks:

We won’t use Your Content material to coach generative AI fashions that purpose to duplicate or synthesize your voice, music, or likeness with out your express consent, which have to be affirmatively supplied by way of an opt-in mechanism.

Seton additionally reiterated that Soundcloud has by no means used "artist content material" to coach AI. "Not for music creation. Not for big language fashions. Not for something that tries to imitate or change your work," Seton writes.

The battle over SoundCloud's method to AI began when users noticed that the corporate had up to date its Phrases of Use in February 2024 to permit SoundCloud to make use of content material to "inform, practice, develop or function enter to artificial intelligence or machine intelligence applied sciences or companies as a part of and for offering the companies."

SoundCloud claims that it will solely ever use artist's content material to coach AI music discovery instruments. The corporate acquired Musiio in 2022 with that precise concept in thoughts. Nonetheless, it's comprehensible that SoundCloud customers can be delicate to any AI-related modifications the corporate makes. Like most different content material saved on-line, AI corporations have scraped music with out artists' consent and been fairly open about it.

This text initially appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/leisure/music/soundcloud-backtracks-on-too-broad-ai-terms-of-service-201023013.html?src=rss

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