SoundCloud backtracks on AI-related terms-of-use updates

SoundCloud says it is amending its terms later Backlash Over a clause related to AI model training.

Early this year, SoundCloud has quietly updated it Use policyThis word adds that many users have explained as legal cover so that the company allows the AI ​​to train the audio uploaded to its platform. Soundcloud quickly said that it was not developing AI using users’ content, but the company’s PR statement was not afraid that Soundcloud could do this in the future.

Wednesday, CEO of SoundCloud Elia Seton Published an Open letter The words of the change in the company’s terms acknowledged the words “very wide and it was not clear enough”. Updates were intended to concentrate on other AI uses in the agency, Seton said – with the recommendations and equipment to help prevent fraud – but missed the mark.

SoundCloud has now modified its terms “To make it completely clear [that] Will not use soundcloud [user] Generator AI models are the contents of training that aims to transcribe or synthesize [a] Voice, music or duplicity, ”said Seton.