TIDAL

TIDAL Cracks Down on AI Music by Cutting Off Monetization

TIDAL, the streaming service owned by Block, will stop paying royalties on AI-generated music -- demonetizing tracks its systems detect as AI-made without banning them outright. The policy is one of the clearest moves yet by a major platform to protect human artists' royalty pool as a flood of synthetic tracks threatens to dilute streaming payouts.