ToS changes are always bullshit. I heard that in normal contract law both parties have to agree before any changes can be made. Furthermore, you cannot tell people to "agree to changes or else". I honestly think that this should be the case for ToS as well.
1 week ago (edited) | 2
aethercowboy
I'd like to take a moment here to discuss my relationship with the AI music platofrm Udio.
First of all, I'm flattered if you actually read this, a post on a channel with fewer than 500 subs. Thanks.
Let me start off with some background. Udio, one of the major AI music generation platforms (the other, at the time of writing is Suno; if there are others, apologies for not recognizing you). Between the two, I preferred Udio. While building a song was cumbersome at times (you have to build it in 32-second increments, so making songs with lyrics could get tricky), the overall quality of the generated songs, especially instrumental ones, was far superior to that of Suno (pre-4.5-all model, at least). Additionally, their TOS was more favorable to cheapskates (free users) like me. Under their TOS, you had full commercial rights to the content you generated on their platform, provided you gave attribution to Udio. It was for this reason alone that when anybody would ask which AI music platform I preferred, I'd say that while Suno was easier to use, Udio was generally better.
With their recent TOS updates as of November 12, 2025, however, all that changed. Their key provisions of "ownership" as outlined in section 6 of the TOS went from being very permissive to being the exact opposite. Not only do you no longer have any rights to the content you generate, but by continuing to use the service, you revoke all rights to content you've previously generated as well.
For the sake of simplicity, let's ignore the fact that under US Copyright law, no AI-generated content is granted copyright protection and should be treated as if it's in the public domain. Let's instead focus on the fact that any and all rights they previously granted you are hereby being retroactively revoked.
Fortunately for me, I hadn't used Udio for a while prior to this, and I only discovered this when I saw people on Reddit complaining about it. Thank you, Reddit complainers, because if it wasn't for that, I might have logged into Udio and completely ignored the TOS update.
To the best of my understanding, Terms of Service updates are only applicable for those who continue to use the service. I am not continuing to use the service after their latest TOS updates, and therefore, I am still bound by the old TOS. I already have over a hundred Udio songs on my channel, and have a few more on my computer in various states of completion that maybe one day I'll post. In honor of the old TOS, I will continue to attribute Udio, but will no longer be a user of their service as of the last time I used my Udio account (which was probably some time before Suno's 4.5-all model dropped).
I can't in good faith recommend anybody use Udio anymore, as after their partnership/settlement with UMG, they have become a "streaming platform." I can't see this being anything but an eventual failure, as (a) nobody will want to pay to generate content that they have no rights over, and (b) nobody will want to listen to a bunch of AI music in a walled garden environment. There are millions of royalty free songs written by humans and computers, so I don't see why anybody would want to waste their time with non-royalty-free songs written entirely by computers. Udio will eventually atrophy, wither, and blow away on the wind.
So long, Udio. You've changed, man, but so have I.
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