SoundCloud issued a statement about the AI training part of its terms of service. Good news that they haven't used people's music to train AI models, but it's worrying that they haven't said they won't in future. It seems carefully worded, and notably doesn't rule out training generative AI models on artists' work in future. Something that their existing terms would permit them to do. @SoundCloud - please rule out training generative models on users' music in future, and update your terms to reflect this! techcrunch.com/2025/05/09/so…

SoundCloud seems to claim the right to train on people's uploaded music in their terms. I think they have major questions to answer over this. I checked the wayback machine - it seems to have been added to their terms on 12th Feb 2024. I'm a SoundCloud user and I can't see any emails from them alerting me to this. I certainly wouldn't have accepted. My question to SoundCloud is: does this include generative AI models? If so, I'll remove my music and would encourage others to do the same. Trying to give them the benefit of the doubt before removing my music. Hoping they address this asap.