SoundCloud backtracks on AI-related terms of use updates

SoundCloud says it’s revising its presumption aft widespread backlash implicit a clause related to AI exemplary training.

Earlier this year, SoundCloud softly updated its usage policies, adding wording that galore users interpreted arsenic ineligible screen to let the institution to bid AI connected audio uploaded to its platform. SoundCloud was speedy to asseverate that it wasn’t processing AI by utilizing its users’ content, but the company’s PR connection didn’t allay fears that SoundCloud mightiness bash truthful successful the future.

On Wednesday, SoundCloud CEO Eliah Seton published an open letter admitting that the wording of the changes to the company’s presumption “was excessively wide and wasn’t wide enough.” The updates were intended to absorption connected different uses of AI internally astatine the company, Seton said — including recommendations and tools to assistance forestall fraud — but missed the mark.

SoundCloud has present revised its presumption “to marque it perfectly wide [that] SoundCloud volition not usage [user] contented to bid generative AI models that purpose to replicate oregon synthesize [a] voice, music, oregon likeness,” said Seton.