Artist-friendly streamer Audius adds easy AI collab opt-in

As AI hysteria sweeps the music industry, music streaming platform Audius offers musicians and labels a simple, safe, and potentially profitable way to get involved.

Audius was built to be more artist-friendly than its treaming competitors, and with 7 million monthly users, it’s beginning to have an impact. Now Audius will enable artists and labels to opt-in to allow interactions with AI-generated tracks uploaded by other artists and fans.

An artist or label just needs to toggle on the “AI-Friendly” button on their Audiua settings page to get started.

From there, fans or other artists can upload AI-generated tracks trained on the original Audius artist’s music and share them on the platform. Those tracks show up in a new AI-generated track section on the original artist’s profile.

“As the curiosity around AI-generated music reaches peak levels, we’re hearing from more and more artists on our platform that they would like a way to interact with AI-generated tracks that were trained on their music,” said Roneil Rumburg, Co-founder and CEO of Audius. “This is a way to enable artists who want to interact with AI music to do so in a way that protects their rights.”

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Bruce Houghton is Founder and Editor of Hypebot, a Senior Advisor at Bandsintown, President of the Skyline Artists Agency, and a Berklee College Of Music professor.