“SoundCloud has never used artist content to train AI models”: SoundCloud affirms it is not using your content to train generative AI amid user panic

Musicians uploading to SoundCloud recently raised concerns that their content could be being used to train AI, but according to the music sharing platform, there’s been a misunderstanding.

An extract from the Terms of Use , which is publicly outlined on the SoundCloud website, began to cause alarm among artists last week, as it states that “in the absence of a separate agreement that states otherwise, 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 and for providing the services”. According to the platform itself, this doesn’t refer to AI tech that exists outside of SoundCloud...

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