SoundCloud appears to have quietly changed its terms of use to allow the company to train AI on audio that users upload to its platform.
Welp. Time to remove all my music.
Submitted 2 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/09/soundcloud-changes-policies-to-allow-ai-training-on-user-content/
SoundCloud appears to have quietly changed its terms of use to allow the company to train AI on audio that users upload to its platform.
Welp. Time to remove all my music.
Best update all your files with some trash first and let it sit for a couple months to hopefully overwrite any backups, there’s no guarantee that “deleting” it from your account will actually remove it from their servers.
Same.
Sounds like this is for AI powered music recommendations.
tamlyn@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
rip soundcloud. Is there some alternativ on the fediverse for soundcloud?
turtle@lemm.ee 2 days ago
You can probably post your music and follow musicians from any fediverse platform, but there is a specialized audio/music one:
Funkwhale.
lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
How to pick a pod? Based on what criteria? Is there a better or a worse pod, similar to pros and cons of different Lemmy instances?