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SoundCloud's updated terms of service, effective February 2024, grant the company the right to use user-uploaded content for AI training. While SoundCloud denies currently using user content for AI training and claims to have safeguards against unauthorized scraping, the statement doesn't rule out future use. This revelation follows SoundCloud's recent development of AI music production tools and comes amidst ongoing legal battles facing AI companies over copyright infringement in AI model training.

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