SoundCloud backtracks on AI-related terms-of-use updates
SoundCloud says that it revised its conditions after widespread recoil on a clause with regard to AI model training.
Earlier this year, SoundCloud quietly updated User policyAdding formulation that many users have interpreted as legal coverage, so that the company can train AI on audio uploaded to its platform. SoundCloud was quickly claiming that the AI did not develop by using the content of its users, but the PR statement of the company did not fall back that Soundcloud could do this in the future.
On Wednesday, SoundCloud CEO Elih Seton published An open letter Admit that the formulation of the changes in the terms of the company was “too wide and was not clear enough.” The updates were intended to concentrate on other use of AI internally at the company, Seton said – including recommendations and tools to prevent fraud – but missed the goal.
SoundCloud has now revised its conditions’ to make it absolutely clear [that] SoundCloud will not use [user] Content to train generative AI models that are aimed at replicating or synthesizing [a] Voice, music or parable, “Seton said.
