We have been closely following the Artist Rights Alliance and their work urging AI companies and developers to stop sabotaging creativity via Artificial Intelligence and using artists’ works to train and enhance AI models. The effects only create more of a chasm for creatives to cross and leaves them out of the conversation altogether.

We couldn’t agree more.

Neutone’s entire ethos, our entire identity as a company, is to build AI-powered tools that empower creatives in ways that haven’t existed or haven’t been explored yet. We are musicians, DJs, artists, in our own right. Our products are for artists to use and discover new possibilities, not to replace them, their process or their creativity.

Neutone Morpho models are trained exclusively on open-source or licensed audio available in the public domain, under Creative Commons license or with the consent of the artists. We cite all of our training data within Morpho. We do not and will not ever infringe upon any copyright or unlicensed audio for the purposes of building datasets. That is fundamentally against our entire philosophy.

If you are a creative and have any thoughts, concerns, or direct experience with this exploitative behavior, please get in touch with us. We want to continue the dialogue with the creative community at large. We want to build custom AI ‘Artist Models’ with you that are not only licensed and legally compliant, but that you have a hand in creating and approve of, trained on data that you provide, for your own artistic experimentation. We want to ensure we are doing everything we can to center creatives at the forefront of our work.

Feel free to reach out to our co-founders, Nao Tokui (tokui@neutone.ai) and Andrew Fyfe (andrew@neutone.ai), our company email at contact@neutone.ai or ping us directly on any of our socials.

Let’s build a music world where artists feel empowered by the presence of AI.