Heads up, SoundCloud users... You're opted in to let them train A.I. with your songs

[douglasricketts]

This was brought to my attention in the viewer chat during today's TAXI TV. From AV Club just a couple days ago...

"Soundcloud addresses terms of use that say it has the right to train AI with users' music"
Soundcloud issued a statement this weekend, addressing a story that began circulating a few days ago, when people looked through the music hosting service’s terms of use and found language stating that they’d been unknowingly granting the company permission to use their uploaded music as AI training data. “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,” reads the service’s current terms of use. Online researchers looked back and found that the language had been inserted, with little fanfare, into the TOS back in February of 2024, even as the music hoster has continued to expand the number of generative AI tools it offers users who don’t want to do all that tricky work of, uh, making music.

https://www.avclub.com/soundcloud-train ... a-ai-music