Soundcloud claims the right to train AI on all your songs — but swears it hasn’t yet, honest

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/11/soundcloud-claims-the-right-to-train-ai-on-your-uploaded-music-but-swears-it-hasnt-yet-honest/

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PixiePoop@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 1y

I haven't followed Soundcloud for a while, but from what I remember it already wasn't doing too well. To me this isn't just the nail in the coffin, but potentially also a last breath money grab. Get some data, and sell it before going down.

BlueMonday1984@awful.systems · 10 pts · 1y

Okay, complete shot-in-the-dark prediction here - I expect Newgrounds is gonna see an influx of musicians from this.

I am admittedly biased on this (I'm heavily active on there), but I do have precedent to point to - Tumblr's NSFW ban in late 2018 led to a minor influx of artists in November, followed by a site-crashing influx in December, after the ban was officially announced.

dumblederp@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y

At least they're stating it.

In theory, if it's on the open Web any asshole could train AI on your content.

I only use SC for electronic festival artists.

rob299@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1y
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