Not that anyone on SoundCloud really cares, but still.

Recently, SoundCloud quietly updated their TOS such that use of the platform authorizes your music to be used to train unspecified AI models. They did this with no press coverage, no announcements, and shadily tried to slide it all past us and hope we didn't notice. I'm not super educated on this, but I'll link the article I learned it from below.

This is so wrong and obnoxious for a number of reasons. First, I detest AI and I especially loathe it in the music industry. I spend my time creating quality human content that is a reflection of my soul, and my emotions. I do not intend for my music (always a deeply personal thing) to get churned up and sloppified by a glorified average machine. Second, the way SoundCloud went about this is the most treacherous and despicable thing I've ever seen. AI is making companies do such retarded things, and clearly SoundCloud had to hop on the trend, by shoving AI down our throats, assuming us dumb humans wouldn't notice. They clearly don't understand that without increasing amounts of high-quality human-made data, the AI models will grind to a halt.

Word on the street is that some researchers have come up with a way to pollute audio inaudibly such that humans hear no difference, but AI models will create unusable content if trained on audio that has been processed as such. I will of course be using this on all future OHK2 releases. I believe they plan on releasing it, or presenting it, this month. I will link their website here also.

Anyway, that's about it! Sorry for the rant. This is why I like Newgrounds:

1. You people are the best! You listen to my music and are super positive; you inspire me to keep going.
2. Newgrounds stands very firmly against AI, which is something I and my music am very grateful for.
3. Newgrounds is a symbol of an internet that was largely nascent, and untarnished by the scum that inhabits it today.

Also my new release, "Heat", a collaboration with techno whiz the Prophet Echo, was officially released today, but I forgot to set it as a preorder to Newgrounds. Sorry about that! I'll have it come out next Friday, but in the meantime you can always check it out elsewhere!

Alright, that's enough. Talk to you guys later!

SOUNDCLOUD UPDATES ITS TOS: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/09/soundcloud-changes-policies-to-allow-ai-training-on-user-content/

HARMONYCLOAK PROTECTS MUSIC FROM AI: https://mosis.eecs.utk.edu/harmonycloak.html