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This.🫰🔥

tidal just published its AI music policy... and omfg 😳

first thing to know: they're not BANNING AI music. it's allowed on the platform but it's being held to stricter rules than music made by actual humans.

from mid-July, fully AI generated tracks get an "AI" label. so when you're listening you'll actually know whether a real person made the thing or not 👏

the bigger one... and it's already live: fully AI tracks WON'T earn royalties. tidal's reasoning is that the money should go to music actually produced, written and performed by people. can i get a HELL FU***NG YES

they're also cleaning house! so anything faking a real artist, tricking listeners or flooding the platform with spam uploads gets blocked from mid-July

and this is not JUST tidal's job, they're also asking distributors who deliver music to flag AI tracks before they even reach the platform.

so the short version is: AI music is welcome, but it's labelled, watched and it doesn't get paid. which is amazing. a platform is FINALLY drawing a line between "made with a tool" and "made by a person" and that is something to be so celebrated.

which is the whole thing really. the value of music has never been in the tool itself. it's in the person making it, and i think the more time goes on, and the more AI slop we are fed, the more we recognise how true that statement is.

real vocals, written and sung by an actual human ✨
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