{"id":13,"date":"2026-07-02T06:30:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T06:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/?p=13"},"modified":"2026-07-02T06:31:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T06:31:30","slug":"tidal-de-monetizes-ai-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/tidal-de-monetizes-ai-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Tidal de-monetizes AI music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On July 15, Tidal will stop paying royalties for, and will disallow directly selling, AI-generated music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They left us the following incredibly <strong>hopeful<\/strong> and uplifting message:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regardless of what you are reading elsewhere, AI\u2019s takeover of the music industry (and your recommendations) isn\u2019t inevitable<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tidal has often found itself prioritizing <strong>ethical policies<\/strong> like paying musicians more money per play than most streaming services, not charging more for lossless music quality, and offering cheaper prices for students, so it&#8217;s not too surprising to see them take a purposeful stance on AI as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They seem to share our frustration with AI slop, stating:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our inboxes (and your world, we\u2019re assuming) are inundated with music that is created completely AI-generated and impersonating existing artists purely for financial gain.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tidal.com\/magazine\/article\/were-for-real\/1-98742\">Read more in <strong>We&#8217;re for Real<\/strong> on the Tidal Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI\u2019s takeover of the music industry (and your recommendations) isn\u2019t inevitable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[6,5],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-news","category-success-stories","tag-music","tag-tidal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}